The emergency strike started in mid-March in Paris continued to expand in July to reach more than 200 services Tuesday, according to the collective Inter-emergency, which calls for more beds, more hiring and salary increases despite local advances. "There are 203 services on strike," assured the nurse Hugo Huon, president of the Inter-emergency, referring to a "twenty or so services on strike but not with the collective". Figures confirmed by the emergency physician Christophe Prudhomme (CGT), which highlights the "essential" role of "unions" in the extension of the movement since "the beginning of the month".
70 million euros announced by Agnès Buzyn
In mid-June, the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, announced 70 million euros to finance a risk premium of 100 euros net monthly for emergency personnel and facilitate recruitment in services in tension this summer, without satisfying the strikers who beat the pavement at the beginning of July. But "in a number of places, the directorates are trying to make proposals to have local memoranda of understanding," said Christophe Prudhomme (CGT), citing for example the end of the emergency strike of Libourne (Gironde) .
At the Public Assistance - Paris Hospitals (AP-HP), where management has offered to create 230 positions in its 25 emergency services, the Trousseau health care providers have also decided to "stop" the strike locally. 15 days ago, "according to Hugo Huon. In Saint-Antoine, where the movement started after a series of attacks, the staff overwhelmingly supported the AP-HP's proposals while deciding to maintain the strike, the "national demands" being "not satisfied, "according to the collective. He denounced in particular the lack of beds leading to "stretcher hospitalizations", a point to be addressed by the report of a national mission scheduled for November.
A website to communicate in real time on the reality of the field
In the meantime, the group, which brings together its strike committee on Saturday, plans to launch a website "to communicate, in real time" the reality of the field. For their part, the unions hope to extend the movement to the entire hospital world in September, according to Christophe Prudhomme, who considers "a day of action on September 11". The money released for emergencies is "taken from other services," insisted Hugo Huon, arguing for an "overall increase in hospital budgets."