Several hospital unions and collectives said Friday they were considering a "national day of mobilization" for the public hospital, severely tested by the coronavirus crisis and for which the government has promised a "massive investment plan".
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A mobilization "mid-June" ...
This mobilization day could take place "mid-June", said in a joint press release these unions, including the Association of Emergency Physicians of France (Amuf), the CGT, and the Inter-hospital Collectives (CIH) and Inter -emergencies, at the forefront of mobilization to request more resources and beds from the public hospital for over a year. They are organizing a video conference on the subject Monday, May 18.
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... while Macron said he wanted to "end impoverishment" in the hospital
This announcement comes while Emmanuel Macron assured Friday wanting to "put an end" to the "impoverishment" of the nursing staff and promised that the State "will be there", during a trip to the Pitié hospital -Salpêtrière, in Paris. Since the beginning of the epidemic, "the President of the Republic affirmed that" the day after would not be a return to the day before "and promised to" draw all the consequences "" of the crisis, underline the hospital unions and collectives in their press release.
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However, "for the moment, we do not see anything coming in this direction". "On the contrary, the deconfinement and the resumption of activity in the establishments are carried out without drawing the first lessons from the management of the health crisis and without hearing the demands of the professionals", they protest. The President of the Republic undertook at the end of March to implement a "massive investment plan" for the hospital, including a "revaluation of all careers" for staff, once the crisis is over .
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Thursday, the head of state met for two hours by videoconference with hospital doctors, promising "to go faster" to boost wages and careers. "In addition to salary demands brought by professionals, it is the very foundations of the human resources policy at the hospital which must be questioned and modernized," the ministry of health explained in a statement on Friday. the social partners "to this work.