Europe 1 with AFP 10:24 a.m., May 30, 2022

Martin Hirsch, the director general of public assistance for hospitals in Paris (AP-HP) indicated on Monday that 1,400 nursing staff were currently lacking in the various Parisian establishments.

So much so that 15% of beds remain closed on average, for lack of caregivers.

The public assistance of Paris hospitals is out of nurses.

This Monday, its director general Martin Hirsch estimated that 1,400 were missing as caregivers are increasing calls for help in the face of a lack of staff.

"We, at the AP-HP compared to other hospitals, our problem is with the nurses (...) We have 1,000 fewer than a year ago at the same time, we had planned to create 400 additional positions, we could not create them, so we are missing 1,400 nurses compared to what we would like to have”, he explained on France Inter. 

"Some have changed jobs, some have gone into the private sector, some have gone to the provinces, some have not come to work after graduating last summer. (…) and there are many who use this soft drug of the interim, which puts us in an absolutely terrible situation”, he added.

At the AP-HP, 15% beds remain closed on average, for lack of caregivers, he underlined, while hospitals across France are warning of the lack of personnel in the emergency services.

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"Before, when you graduated, you weren't allowed to set up as a temporary worker. Temporary workers in health professions where there is no unemployment (...), that means 'I do the choice to work when I want, when I can, paid three times more than the others'", commented Mr. Hirsch, who described the temporary workers as "mercenaries". 

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