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The white blouses beat Paris pavement this Thursday, November 14th. Whether they are doctors, caregivers, or administrative staff, hospital staff are called upon to mobilize to ask the government for an emergency plan for the public hospital.
The public hospital is sick: lack of staff, exhausted and underpaid staff, closure of beds, accounting logic to the detriment of care ... There are more and more of them, within the hospital, to share this diagnosis and these grievances, and to express them. And that goes from caregivers to wardens, to nurses and department heads. The mobilization should therefore be strong, Thursday, November 14.
" More able to perform our missions "
The majority MP Olivier Véran, a hospital doctor himself, warned: " When the hospital gets out of bed, it is difficult to put it back ." The government measures that should be announced very soon will have to be ambitious to hope to calm the dispute, and they will of course have to be accompanied by financial extensions, while the health budget for 2020 is currently being discussed in Parliament.
The current state of funding of the public hospital no longer allows it to carry out its missions
Pr. Stéphane Dauger, Head of Department at Robert Debré Hospital 14/11/2019 - by Valérie Cohen Play
In a forum published Wednesday, November 13 by the newspaper Le Monde , 70 medical directors of Public Assistance - Paris Hospitals (AP-HP) called for increasing the budget allocated to health and to upgrade the salaries of caregivers, fearing a " Irreversible breaking point ".
" We are no longer able to ensure our missions in good conditions of quality and safety of care ", alarmed the signatories, at the head of the medical-university departments recently created at the AP-HP, at the eve of a day of mobilization to " save the public hospital ".
Among the claims made by collectives and unions Thursday, November 14: the increase in wages, especially for low wages, the increase in enrollment and the reopening of closed beds.