2023-07-03 03:15:09
The Minister of Health, François Braun, in Marseille, June 27, 2023. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP
The circle is complete. A “first loop”he said, sweeping the subject of an upcoming redesign. Tuesday evening, June 20, the Minister of Health, François Braun, came to greet the teams of the intercommunal hospital center of Créteil in a small committee. Returned, rather: on July 4, 2022, already, it was in this establishment that he had gone for his first official trip, a few hours after his appointment to the government.
This Tuesday, he successively marked breaks in the pediatric emergency room, in the adult emergency room, then in the maternity ward. Services on the job 24 hours a day, on the front line of the tensions that run through the hospital everywhere in France. “At night, caregivers can’t hide anything, that’s when they speak frankly; they are not people you put in your way”slips the minister, arrested that evening, less on the influx of patients than on the safety and well-being of caregivers.
On the eve of a summer that promises to be still complicated, François Braun knows very well that he must be accountable. It has been a year since he arrived at the head of the Ministry of Health, in the midst of a hospital crisis. And the alerts continue to rise from the ground, giving an air of deja vu to this summer period. From the Bordeaux emergency room to the Guingamp maternity hospital (Côtes-d’Armor), from the oncology department of the Moulins hospital center to the urology department of the Lyon-Sud hospital: the difficulties in maintaining the supply of care remain .
Several calls for mobilization are now resounding, for Monday July 3 and Tuesday July 4, carried by two alliances of unions. That of Monday emanates from Actions hospital practitioners, which includes in particular the organization SAMU-Urgences de France, of which François Braun was the president. Tuesday’s call is made by Alliance Hospital and the National Intersyndicate of Hospital Practitioners (INPH).
Overall, the demands are similar: hospital doctors intend to denounce the lack of attractiveness of their profession and demand the upgrading of night and weekend call duty. A movement which should, however, slightly disrupt care, most of the striking doctors not stopping work.
“The situation at the public hospital has never been so serious, [il] is collapsing in whole sections”, writes in particular the INPH. Psychiatrists, obstetrician-gynecologists, pediatricians and even biologists have announced that they are joining the movement.
Growing misunderstanding
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