The end of the year promises to be tense Rouen University Hospital. While the urgencies saturated for many weeks, the white plane, decreed on October 24, remains in force. Combined with lack of means and the difficulties of using leave before 2023, the accumulation of fatigue places a heavy burden on caregivers.

The CHU agents are exhausted

“The problems in the services are from January 1 to December 31”, loose Evelyne Bourgeois, CGT activist at the Rouen University Hospital. And to add, bitterly: “The agents are so physically and morally exhausted that they stop. “For his part, Guillaume Herlinsecretary of the SOUTH section of the CHU confides that “there is a deep end-of-year fatigue that accumulates in the various departments “. The hospital is in tension.

Lack of staff and fatigue

As the end-of-year celebrations loom, staff fatigue, closing of town halls and the seasonal epidemics (peak of bronchiolitis, flu outbreak, ninth wave of covid) remember to blow the already well-used fuses of the Rouen University Hospital. In any case, this is what some caregivers fear.

On the side of the Rouen University Hospital, we are preparing to pass this phase of turbulence. “We are getting organized. We close some beds, we open others. We reinforce, we put caregivers where there are urgent needs. We do the best we can, with the means we have,” confides the health establishment. And to specify that the difficulties will not disappear “until we have as many caregivers as necessary. We are still short of personnel in the medical and paramedical sectors, not in the emergency room”. Difficulties in recruiting are still felt in public hospitalssand that of Rouen is no exception.

Philippe Vasselin, FO secretary at the Rouen University Hospital, insists on the problem lack of nurses to the hospital. “We have to close beds. There is real suffering at work,” he notes.

Difficulties in setting leave

On November 24, 2022, the CFDT filed a request for the holding of a CHSCT (Health, safety and working conditions committee). The meeting between management and caregivers took place on December 1st.

Due to the workload and the lack of staff, “it will be difficult to take leave for the end of the year”, fears Evelyne Bourgeois. The CGT activist at the Rouen University Hospital explains that “many caregivers still have leave to take in 2022”. But not everyone could take them by the end of 2022. “The only recourse is to stop”she laments, denouncing a “permanent fatigue”.

Guillaume Herlin, from SUD, confides for his part that “the teams have not been able to take all their rest. There has been intense activity throughout the year”. Thus, “there are services where there will be a race to dispose of the social debt”.

Avoid social debt

“We try to encourage everyone to take their holidays over the year, without postponing them, in order to avoid social debts. When this is not possible, the days not taken during the year go to the CET (time savings account)”, replies the Rouen University Hospital. And to add: “Even when the situation is tense during the holiday season, we do our best not to call back caregivers on vacation. »

In some years, the CHU explains that it has defined a certain flexibility, with leave reports in January. But it is a device that the public hospital does not wish to make permanent, in order to encourage health professionals to spend their rest during the current year.

Not always easy, knowing that many departments are already plagued by understaffing problems (absenteeism, illness, difficulty in recruiting, etc.) and that the seasonal epidemics in full swing. A real headache, then.

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