LFI deputies will go to hospitals to “assess needs”

Europe 1 with AFP 5 p.m., July 28, 2022

From Thursday, around "a third" of the group of LFI deputies will go to the hospitals in their constituency to assess the needs, in order to report in mid-September on the "catastrophic" situation of the establishments.

This "popular commission of inquiry", called "Hello Ségur, the deputies in the hospitals", aims concretely to "raise the needs" and "establish lists to have something concrete on which to base", explains the deputy Nathalie Oziol at a press conference.

"Where we should provide care, it is involuntary mistreatment, it is unworthy. The person responsible for this chaos, for public hospitals, is first and foremost Emmanuel Macron", estimated the president of the group Insoumis Mathilde Panot.

"It is important that this suffering be heard in the hemicycle"

“Several of us were approached by unions of nursing staff, users”, explains Nathalie Oziol, who recounts having been shocked by a sentence from a union representative, during a strike at the Montpellier University Hospital, who predicted “ deaths" this summer and "not because of a virus".

"It is important that this suffering be heard in the hemicycle", argued Mathilde Panot.

A day of mobilization at the end of September envisaged

The objective is then to draw up a report, to propose a "counter-budget" to the government's Social Security financing bill, which will be examined from October in the National Assembly.

Twenty hospitals will be affected by what the Insoumis hope to be "a resounding and coordinated action", from Béziers to Gonesse, via Angers, Paris and Saint-Etienne.

The three signatory hospital unions of Ségur de la santé (FO, CFDT, Unsa) have already planned a "day of mobilization" at the end of September and called on the government "to open new negotiations", in particular on wages and workforce.