Charles Guyard, edited by Gauthier Delomez with AFP 6:57 p.m., August 16, 2022

Unions filed a report on Friday with the public prosecutor of Mayenne, alerting to "the endangerment of Laval hospital staff".

They denounce degraded working conditions, a lack of medical and paramedical staff as well as the increase in the workload linked to Covid.

CGT 53 and Force Ouvrière filed a report with the public prosecutor of Mayenne on Friday, alerting to "the endangerment of Laval hospital staff" in a context of regular emergency room closures and a lack of beds, a we learned in a press release.

“Today, we are reporting to you, Madam, Mr. Public Prosecutor, on the fact that the French State, by its decisions to close beds for many years, endangers the hospital staff of Laval," the unions said.

Degraded working conditions, lack of staff...

They denounce degraded working conditions, a lack of medical and paramedical staff as well as the increase in the workload linked to Covid.

The unions have also warned of the deterioration in the supply of care for patients.

A situation which results, according to Maxime Lebigot, nurse and assistant secretary FO at the Laval hospital center from the "psychological and physical suffering" of health professionals.

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Contacted by AFP, the management of the Laval hospital center said it was "aware of the difficulties that hospital professionals may face".

She wished to recall "the actions implemented to support the exceptional mobilization of hospital professionals in a national post-crisis context" such as the activation of a "medico-administrative crisis unit which meets in a bi- -weekly" as well as "weekly social dialogue meetings between management and representatives of trade unions".

Closed multiple times in recent months, the Laval hospital emergency room was already on the verge of asphyxiation in December, with two-thirds of doctors missing.

In October, the staff had started an indefinite strike against a situation which they considered "disastrous for the population".

In January, while aid of 30 million euros for this establishment had been announced by Minister Olivier Véran as part of the Ségur de la Santé, the State then announced that it would increase its aid to 80 million euros.