After more than two months of health crisis, the hospital staff, although exhausted, once again reveals their anger at the lack of resources. A demonstration was held Thursday in front of the Robert Debré hospital in Paris. As the Covid-19 epidemic begins to wane, doctors and healthcare workers are putting pressure on the government not to be forgotten.
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"Public hospital no return to the abnormal" one can read on the facade of the Pitié Salpêtrière. "After the Covid, what will happen? It scares us," said a nurse. If he is also pessimistic, neurologist David Grabli hopes, however, that the government is learning from the health crisis. "We got used to operating with the idea that a free bed was an extra bed. This crisis has shown that if we want to accommodate people according to their needs, we need free beds!"
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"The hospital is starting to boil"
With the reinforcements of volunteers who leave, the problems come back, as Doctor Léger explains: "A hospital room in the building is always closed, because we do not have the nursing staff to accommodate patients there." Emmanuel Macron promised Thursday a massive plan for the sector, but we will have to hurry warns this neurologist: "Between fatigue, waiting, the announcement effect that does not come ... the hospital begins to boil. these hopes are showered, many people will throw in the towel. " And to add: "We don't need medals." All she and her colleagues want is that the next hospital doesn't look like the one before.