Paris (AFP)
Lack of arms, time and equipment: in all the processions of hospital staff who marched Thursday in the big French cities, the same stories come back and tell a broken system, which leaves the patients "on the floor" and makes "crack "caregivers.
In Toulouse, "it's gone too far"
Isabelle Roger, physiotherapist
"There, it's gone too far, you have to sort, prioritize, sometimes you can not even take a patient out of bed for two days."
"We have very long days, but the hardest is the psychological weight compared to the patients, when we leave half of them on the floor."
In Marseille, "savings at all levels"
Morgane Girard, Clinical Psychologist
"We have an office for five, half an hour per patient, and a waiting list to consult a psychologist who reaches a year for some."
"The savings are at all levels, from play dough for the child patients to boxes of tissues for which we have to fight".
In Strasbourg, "you have to have faith"
Elodie Lehacaut, nurse
"We only take care of the acute phase, the more the patients are recovering, it is human work but at the chain and we do not have a fixed break, it is only if the service allows it."
"I love my job, but you have to have faith, you wonder what state you're going to retire in. We see colleagues cracking one after the other."
In Lille, "we do not meet anymore"
Clément Fournier, pulmonologist
"The situation of public hospital service is deteriorating with caregivers who are suffering more and more.It remains on the idea that we have the best health system in the world, it is not true for many years. "
"Either that changes, or we will be many doctors to ask the question of leaving the public hospital, because we do not find it anymore."
In Bordeaux, "stories of profitability"
Gilles Combeau, nurse anesthetist
"In the operating room, instead of doing a program of operations from 8am to 4pm, we have to do it from 8am to 11pm: for stories of profitability, we only work with three rooms while we have five."
"Normally, scheduled operations should be set sooner - it's necessarily a bad deal."
In Besançon, "more equipment"
Cécile Fourgeux, 6th year medical student
"Doctors have so much work that they do not have the time to teach us the job, we are less and less well trained, we, students, sometimes do administrative work and replace secretaries."
"And we do not have enough equipment, I once heard a surgeon say," We do not have a scalpel that cuts properly. "Do you imagine a scalpel that does not cut well for surgery?"
In Rennes, "we pull on the rope"
Céline Vigneau, nephrologist
"We are not on strike against our leadership, but to save the public hospital, to increase health funding."
"We run out of beds because we can not hire staff, we pull the rope with a staff that has to take care of more and more sick people, we have a less humane medicine, we have no more time to devote to our sick. "
In Paris, the "turnstile method"
Mareva Lhermitte, intern in child psychiatry
"In psychiatry, there are sometimes waiting lists of 10 to 12 patients, so we apply the tourniquet method: patients are hospitalized for only three weeks, before being + released, which is often not the case. enough."
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