Paris (AFP)
LFI MP Clémentine Autain said on Tuesday that the measures announced by Agnès Buzyn for emergencies are insufficient and that the minister "takes a big risk" for the country "on the verge of a great right movement".
The Minister of Health "absolutely does not respond to the urgency" and "takes a great risk, health limit, for our country," warned the member for Seine-Saint-Denis France 2.
"The doctors are joining and the Ehpad could also go on strike, and here we are at the edge of a big movement that is a movement just because the state of our hospitals is unworthy of a country who is an economic power like ours, "she predicted.
For nearly six months, an unprecedented strike has spread to nearly half of the public-sector emergency services - 233 according to the Inter-Urgences collective which is at the origin, 195 according to the Ministry of Health .
"Direct admission" for the elderly and "video-assistance" in all Samu: Agnès Buzyn unveiled Monday during a trip to Poitiers a first salvo of measures to "improve the situation" of emergency services "overheating ", waiting for a second round of announcements next week.
According to Ms. Autain, the demands of the emergency services face the "wall of austerity" and "the means are lacking for emergencies, for public hospitals and for medicine in general in our country".
"So we are not able to share the wealth, we are not able to protect and give the ability to the staff to do their work and it is they who are now in burn out", she denounces.
"It's a matter of government priority and a link between private and public, we have allowed private clinics to grow on the back of a public hospital that is in trouble," she said.
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