While nearly 600 kilometers of traffic jams were recorded Monday in the Paris region, paramedics fear being stuck with their patients in traffic. Véronique Blocquaux, director of Jussieu Relief France, explains on Europe 1 how her teams are organized.

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One in five trains, 10 metro lines closed in Paris, 600 km of cork in Ile-de-France at the height of traffic. Traffic is again very disturbed on Monday, the fifth day of mobilization against the pension reform. A problem for paramedics, who have to make their way through very busy streets.

"More flexibility"

"The strike impacts our organization," says the microphone of Europe 1 Véronique Blocquaux, director of Jussieu Relief France, national network of ambulance service. To avoid disappointments, the service was reorganized upstream. "When there is a planned strike, we anticipate, we adapt the schedules of taking care of paramedics, we made them leave a little earlier, we strengthen the number of team to have more flexibility on the schedules," explains Véronique Blocquaux.

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Everything is done to prevent patients from being penalized. "When you're in an ambulance and you're afraid you can not move forward, it's very stressful," she says. But the organization of strike days is not thought to continue over time. "EMTs can not come every day very early - until the weekend it will be fine, after that it can get complicated."