The hospital doctors were strongly mobilized Thursday to denounce the lack of means of the public, more than 25% having declared strikers on all France, as 12% of the other staffs, according to the figures of the Ministry of Health communicated Friday.
In detail, in the hospital, the participation rate (absent strikers) of the doctors was 17.4%, and the mobilization rate (strikers absent and assigned, that is to say forced to work ) to 25.4%, said Friday the Directorate General of Care Supply (DGOS) to AFP. Among non-medical staff (nurses, nursing aides, administrative agents, etc.), these rates were 4.8% and 11.8% respectively. At the Public Assistance - Paris Hospitals (AP-HP), where the movement started, more than half of the doctors were mobilized (56.5%), four out of ten (39.5%) having ceased the work, according to the DGOS.
10% of non-medical staff went on strike
Nearly 10% (9.8%) of non-medical staff went on strike, 20.5% by counting the assigned. Taking into account medico-social establishments such as nursing homes, 6.5% of all categories of staff went on strike (13.7% included), according to the DGOS. Several thousand doctors, nurses, aides and interns of public hospitals marched Thursday everywhere in France to denounce their working conditions and demand an "emergency plan".
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They were 10,000 in Paris according to the organizers (7,500 according to the police) and several hundred in the other processions in Toulouse, Lyon, Nantes, Bordeaux, Marseille or Lille. These demonstrators responded to the call of the collective Inter-Hospitals, created by doctors of the AP-HP, and the collective Inter-Emergency, launched by caregivers of the same hospital and the origin of 8 months of emergency strike , joined by the unions. President Emmanuel Macron promised in response that a "consequent" plan and "strong decisions" would be presented Wednesday, November 20 by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe.
"In the absence of concrete proposals", the collective Inter-Hospitals said Friday continue "mobilization", calling for "a new unitary event on November 30 in Paris".