Crisis in the emergency room: the government announces “first measures” before the summer – Le Monde

Lise, 32, Bérangère, 42, and Cécile, 41, nurses in the operating theater of the Pellegrin hospital in Bordeaux, take part in the demonstration by nursing staff as part of a day of mobilization in hospitals to demand pay and staff increases. In Bordeaux, June 7, 2022. UGO AMEZ FOR “THE WORLD” Overtime paid double, student nurses “immediately” employable: the Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, announced on Wednesday June 8 a series of “first measures” in order to overcoming a “difficult summer” at the hospital, “without waiting” for the conclusions of the flash mission on emergencies. “The summer will be difficult” and it will be necessary “to find solutions so that the French are not deprived of care”, declared Ms. Bourguignon during an intervention at the Emergency Congress, which is held in Paris from Wednesday to Friday. Read the survey: Article reserved for our subscribers Hospital crisis: faced with the announced disaster, how to save emergencies? While 120 emergency services have been forced to limit their activity or are preparing for it, according to a count released at the end of May by the Samu-Urgences de France association, “the government is taking its responsibilities in the face of the crisis”, a- she asserted. The executive notably “decided to reactivate the doubling of overtime pay for non-medical staff, and additional working time for doctors, for the entire summer period”. The minister also announced “an exceptional system” so that “student nurses and nursing assistants who completed their initial training in June and July (can) start practicing immediately, without waiting for the official presentation of their diploma”. Retired carers “volunteer to resume an activity” this summer will benefit from “facilities for accumulation (with) their retirement pension”. Read the answers to your questions: “The hospital crisis is ahead of us, and budgetary measures will certainly not solve everything” In addition, the regional health agencies (ARS) have been ordered to “remobilize the territorial crisis management systems” to coordinate public hospitals, private clinics and liberal professionals. These “first steps will soon be supplemented by the proposals of the Braun mission”, she added. Emmanuel Macron has indeed instructed Dr François Braun, head of emergencies at the CHR in Metz and president of Samu-Urgences de France, with a “flash mission” on “unscheduled care”, the results of which are expected before the 1st July. Read the forum: Article reserved for our subscribers “In the emergency room, one in five services is in danger of closing this summer. There will therefore be deaths » Le Monde with AFP