Lille (AFP)
A hundred Hauts-de-France hospital staff gathered Tuesday in front of the Lille City Hall to denounce their working conditions and the "insufficient" responses of the state.
"Urgences in peril", "Ras the syringe it's going to sting", could one read on the banners or on the back of the white coats of the demonstrators who, through slogans and songs, questioned the government and the mayor of Lille, Martine Aubry, also chair of the CHU's supervisory board.
"The lack of resources is reflected on several levels," said Vincent Porteous, an anesthetist midwife at the University Hospital of Lille. "The staff is forced to do a lot more with a lot less," with "regular overtime that blow up the day time, and difficulties to recover."
Moreover, the premises "are today unsuitable for the explosion of demand", which "has an impact on the quality of care," he lamented.
Faced with the anger of emergencies, on strike for five months, the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn has released in June 70 million euros, intended among other things to fund a monthly premium of 100 euros net.
But these premiums are considered insufficient, especially since they "are not granted to medical regulatory assistants" (ARM, responsible in particular for responding to calls to emergencies), regrets Cédric Givaudan, ARM at Samu Lille for 13 years, "while we are supposed to be the first link in the chain of urgency".
"There are answers, the declarative Everyone agrees with us (?) But in the answers we are completely off the plate Waiting for more staff, we remove the waiting areas in the corridors, we expect mediation staff, security, it does not come, "lamented Mr. Porteous.
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