Hospital emergency crisis: a new day of mobilization expected on Tuesday

Published on: 07/06/2022 – 05:52 Without waiting for the result of the “flash mission” ordered by Emmanuel Macron, nine unions and hospital collectives called on healthcare staff to mobilize on Tuesday to demand wage increases and workforce. First day of action of Macron’s second five-year term. A few days before the legislative elections, nine unions and hospital collectives are organizing a day of mobilization on Tuesday, June 7, to demand wage and staff increases. Rallies are planned in at least fifty cities. In Paris, protesters are expected in front of the Ministry of Health from 1:30 p.m. Other actions are announced, often in front of hospitals, in Grenoble, Marseille, Nantes and Toulouse, but also in smaller localities such as Aurillac , Epernay or Cherbourg, where Emmanuel Macron came last week to announce a “flash mission” on emergency services. their activity or are preparing for it, according to a count at the end of May from the Samu-Urgences de France association. It is moreover its president François Braun who will have to submit the conclusions of the “flash mission” to the Head of State by the end of June. A justified delay in order to “look at emergency service by emergency service and Samu by Samu, territory by territory where there are needs”, explained Emmanuel Macron in an interview with the regional press on Friday, promising to “take emergency decisions from July”. A mission deemed too late But his opponents see it above all a ploy to “postpone the decisions after the legislative elections” of June 12 and 19, when the health system is already “in a disaster situation”, denounced the emergency doctor Christophe Prudhomme, of the CGT-Santé, Monday on RFI “We are expecting a particularly difficult month of July and a horrible month of August” and “this flash mission is a bit of an insult to us”, even estimated Pierre Schwob-Tellier, of the Inter- Emergencies, during a press conference on Thursday. Criticism also targets the choice by François Braun, head of emergencies at the CHR in Metz and health referent for candidate Macron during the recent presidential campaign. The person concerned assured, Wednesday on Franceinfo, that he did not intend to produce “an umpteenth report” but “to write the prescription” expected by the hospital, adding to have “already leads”. Some appear in a letter sent to the Minister of Health, Brigitte Bourguignon, on the day of her appointment and published on the website of Samu-Urgences de France. Ideas are worrying, such as the obligation to call 15 to filter access to emergencies, implemented in Cherbourg or Bordeaux. An “unplayable” scenario for Patrick Pelloux, president of the Association of Emergency Physicians of France (Amuf), who predicts an explosion of calls to Samu “already overwhelmed”. To increase the pressure, the latter also plans to ” launch a strike movement in the emergency room before the summer”. With AFP