INTERVIEW
Hospital staff and doctors are organizing a mobilization day on Tuesday. Demonstrations are planned throughout France, such as strikes in many establishments. One month after the start of the Ségur de la Santé, Olivier Véran proposed on June 24 six billion euros to increase the salaries of non-medical personnel, and 300 million for the salaries of hospital doctors on Monday. Ads that do not satisfy unions, caregivers, or doctors.
"We are signing the planned death of the public hospital"
The new announcements of the Minister of Health Monday concerning the revaluation of the salaries of hospital doctors did not satisfy the unions which asked for seven billion euros. The 300 million would include salary increases targeted at the start and end of the careers of hospital practitioners, as well as a revaluation of several bonuses and additional working time.
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"It's a freezing shower," reacts Jean-François Cibien, one of the negotiators and the vice-president of Action practitioners at the hospital, who considers this amount unacceptable. "Today, with all the measures announced, we are in the process of signing the planned death of the public hospital but ... let us be told!" gets carried away.
Jean-François Cibien fears that young doctors will flee the public hospital for the private. "Our young hospital colleagues start today, after ten years of study, between 3,500 and 3,700 euros net per month. In the private sector, salaries are triple, quadruple or quintuple when you start your career," says he. "If we want to keep the practitioners in the hospital, we pay them a salary accordingly with their level of education and their level of responsibility. There is a catch-up to be done," he summarizes.
"In Bichat, at least 100 nursing positions are vacant"
Hospital staff are still exasperated. They do not know how much or for whom are these six billion, or if the government will put money on the table to recruit staff, an essential recruitment according to Olivier Milleron, cardiologist at Bichat hospital in Paris and member of the Collective Inter-Hospitals. "After the Covid, people are clearly exhausted," he said on Europe 1 Tuesday.
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While a "hope was born with the words of politicians at the time when the caregivers were called heroes, today, concretely, in Bichat, where there has been a lot of Covid, at least 100 nursing positions are vacant ", explains the cardiologist. "How can we imagine that if we have a second wave we can cope?", He worries.
For Olivier Milleron, "it is therefore all the more worrying" that, if nothing emerges "quickly" from Ségur de la Santé, "many people will leave the public hospital with enormous disappointment", which will only "worsen the health situation in hospitals in the event of an influx in the coming weeks".