in Toulouse, the anger of caregivers after the announcements of Emmanuel Macron
Between misunderstanding, disappointment and anger, the reception of Emmanuel Macron’s announcements during his wishes to health professionals was rather cool, this Friday, at the Toulouse University Hospital and SAMU.
Responding to the concerns of caregivers, such was the objective of Emmanuel Macron, this Friday, during his wishes to health personnel. The latter denounce increasingly untenable working conditions, whether in hospitals or in liberal cabinets. In Corbeil-Essonnes, the Head of State presented a whole reorganization of the hospital as well as a series of measures to facilitate patient access to a general practitioner and “to get out of this day of endless crisis”. Its prescription in the face of the sick system.
“It’s insulting!”
On the other side of France, at the Toulouse University Hospital and at SAMU 31 (Haute-Garonne), health professionals have carefully followed the announcements made by the Head of State on the occasion of his vows. Pauline is a caregiver. For her, the president asked many questions, but gave few answers:
“For us it’s unbearable, insulting and it makes us angry.”
For her part, Pauline Salingue, CGT delegate at the Toulouse University Hospital, does not accept the criticisms of the Head of State, especially when he points to the lack of organization. “When you work on a daily basis, especially in the emergency services and when people come to lecture you by telling you to organize yourself better when you have been giving everything for months and years that you have not counted the hours you take on patients in deplorable conditions of course we can’t hear that”, she fumes.
To put more flexibility in the system, the president wants to enter the 35 hours. A surprising decision, the director of SAMU 31, Professor Vincent Bounes:
“I don’t know a carer who is at 35 hours. We are all well beyond, already. It’s called overtime but at the present time obviously we are no longer at 35 hours.”
“On a 20 to 30 years behind other countries”
Many caregivers here regret the lack of concrete measures. For Vincent Bounes, it would have taken a real Marschall plan with a “system overhaul” and “funding massively”. He estimates that France is “20 to 30 years behind the countries where the system has deteriorated.”
Between two interventions, in his medical vehicle, doctor Bertrand Valdeyron of Samu 31 listened to Emmanuel Macron. He believes that the major problem remains the lack of doctors, a point also mentioned by the Head of State. For the emergency doctor, “today we seem to be at an impasse”, even if he tempers hoping that “it will be better in ten years or less when we have trained” future caregivers.
After the theory, place to practice on the ground for his Minister of Health. François Braun goes Monday afternoon on the ground, in the neighboring department of Gers to inaugurate a health establishment. He will certainly have to answer the questions of the nursing staff.