REPORTAGE
This is a phenomenon that has lasted for five months. Today, around 200 emergency services are affected by the emergency strike movement. Almost half of all French hospitals are involved in this movement. Although the government announced in June that it would release $ 70 million to appease the anger of the strikers, the caregivers are still demanding more beds and jobs.
Among these structures, the emergency department of the Timone Hospital in Marseille recently joined the movement to denounce the harsh working conditions.
"Tired morally and physically"
The day of Friday was announced calm until a patient must be transferred in resuscitation, while all the boxes are already occupied. A caregiver wearing a striker's armband overflowing with work: "I have ten patients in my charge and the nurse who has gone now to eat at 3 pm It is quite heavy. It's a tiring pace, it's tiring morally and physically, "she says. "It hurts me when I go out, I feel like I have not done my job properly, there is no good care."
Waiting times to lengthen
Despite the pace of work of caregivers, patients can spend several hours waiting for hospital beds. "It accumulates as the day progresses, and you can have 90 patients simultaneously inside the emergency room," says a nurse. "It happens on a daily basis, waiting times increase so much that you can sometimes wait up to four hours to have a first contact with someone, that brings anger, incomprehension of aggression and sometimes Some of our colleagues have paid a high price for it. "
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Like everywhere else in France, these striking health care workers are asking for emergency room hires and stretchers to put an end to the time lost in the corridors of the hospital.