In Paris, several hundred nurses, doctors and nursing assistants gathered in front of the Robert-Debré hospital. Grouped around a banner "Hospitallers, users, all united for health", they called for "putting pressure" on the government to obtain "wage increases" and the "stop of bed closures" in hospitals.

A "casserolade" (saucepan concert, editor's note) was organized as part of the "# JeDisColère" movement.

"The crisis has been going on for a long time"

"The coronavirus crisis has highlighted the difficulties that public hospitals are facing", but "the crisis has been going on for a long time", said Stéphane Dauger, head of the pediatric resuscitation service at Robert-Debré hospital and member of the Collective inter-hospital.

"The staff are exhausted. It takes strong gestures on the part of the government in the coming days, before the implementation of real negotiations," insisted the practitioner, who considers it "urgent" to "get the public hospital out of this slump ".

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Several rallies were held at the same time in front of other hospitals, in particular at Pitié-Salpêtrière (Paris) or Avicenne (Bobigny), where the demonstrators held up placards "No return to abnormal" and "More staff, more beds. "

"We want to do our job in good conditions," said Marc Paulin, a member of the White Blouses collective, who spoke to the demonstrators, equipped with "Wages, not misery" or "Put down the masks" signs. .

In the morning, a demonstration was also organized at the call of the CGT in front of the headquarters of the Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP), to "demand accounts" after the crisis of the new coronavirus.

"We don't want a big blah blah, Mr. Macron"

"After this pandemic, we, what we want is to make a real inventory (...). We can no longer return to the health system in France as it was a few months ago," explained to AFP Franck Moubeche, caregiver and CGT delegate.

A message relayed by Yolande Ho A Tchung, nurse at Henri-Mondor hospital in Créteil: "Variable hours, overtime which are not retained, not counted, we don't want that anymore. We want to be able to take our rest. "

These protests come as the "Ségur de la santé" entered its fourth day on Thursday. This consultation, intended to improve the working conditions of caregivers, should lead to concrete proposals in mid-July.

"It took this damn epidemic for Mr. Macron to organize the Ségur de la santé," said Professor Laurent Thines, of the Inter-hospital Collective, present at the Besançon rally. Before calling the caregivers to "be vigilant" on the results of Ségur: "We do not want a big blah-bla, Mr. Macron".

With AFP

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