2024-03-19 06:53:40
This is not a profession used to pounding the pavement. “Or, to run from one patient to another,” slips Alexandra Veyret, co-president of the Collective of Angry Liberal Nurses. However, for several weeks already, and once again on Tuesday March 19, this nurse based in the Grenoble area will stop working for a few hours to respond to the call for mobilization launched by the association – “non-union and apolitical”, she is keen to point out – which she helped found a year ago.
An association active on social networks which has been organizing, since January, in the wake of the farmers’ movement, “snail operations”, filter dams, sit-ins and distribution of leaflets in several localities in France.
Every weekend, that’s the goal. See more : “In Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where the collective is well established, we try to launch an action every day or almost, she reports. I usually attend on my lunch break. » Without giving up visiting its forty patients on a daily basis, and carrying out around sixty procedures per day – blood tests, infusions, distribution of medicines, injections.
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Some 300 kilometers away, Gaëlle Cannat, nurse in a village near Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), also the initiator of this collective, expects ” at least ” around thirty symbolic actions on March 19. Before, she hopes, a gathering « plus important » in front of the Ministry of Health, in Paris, on April 4. Waiting for, “the objective is for each of us, locally, to lead the mobilization that seems most appropriate to us. In the markets, in front of primary health insurance funds, shopping centers, at toll booths…”
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Both Gaëlle Cannat and Alexandra Veyret agree: if, week after week, their collective has gained visibility, particularly on social networks, where it is followed by more than 18,000 professionals, and if it has found relays in the field, from Toulouse to Saint-Nazaire via Montpellier, Nantes or Strasbourg, they do not expect, on Tuesday, a ” tsunami “. The 130,000 nurses in private practice are bound by an obligation of continuity of care.
Nevertheless, the unease is diffuse, and the slogans are widely shared: revaluation of the prices of basic procedures – the price of some, among the most frequent, has stagnated for fifteen years despite inflation and the flight of loads –, recognition of skills, simplification of “paperwork” administrative, increase in the fixed travel allowance – increased from 2.50 to 2.75 euros in January, without this being enough, insist those concerned, to compensate for the price of fuel –, taking into account the arduousness of the profession…
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