2024-01-15 14:18:20
Irène Frachon allowed the conviction of the Servier laboratory on appeal on December 20, 2023. This is the victory of the “girl from Brest” – and that of thousands of victims – who managed to show that she was right to have attacked the powerful pharmaceutical lobby. She will remain an example for these women and men, often anonymous, testifying to the catastrophic situation of the public hospital.
These whistleblowers, involved on a daily basis with patients, wanting nothing more than to be heard, were nevertheless punished for their good faith. Sébastien Harscoat in Strasbourg, or Caroline Brémaud in Laval know it: alerting, for the good of the community, is dangerous. Whistleblowers, for sociologist Francis Chateauraynaud, author of Alerts and whistleblowers (“What do I know?”, PUF, 2020), are not the denouncers of faults, fraud or mistreatment, but people or groups who, breaking the silence, signal the imminence, or the simple possibility , of a catastrophic sequence.
This is exactly what is happening at the public hospital. For several years, caregivers, nurses, medical secretaries, psychologists, social workers, health executives, patients, doctors, department heads, etc. have testified to the deterioration of access to care and public hospitals. They alert public authorities, elected officials and current or future patients, through the press and social networks, about the situation in our health system, hoping to stop the infernal spiral. Staff shortages, inadequate patient reception, loss of opportunity, even unexpected or avoidable deaths, are now covered in the media.
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In 2022, an excess mortality of 50,000 deaths was noted by INSEE. Today, no one, even the government, denies the deterioration of public hospitals and access to care for all. Brigitte Bourguignon, short-lived Minister of Health, described the collectives of hospital workers and users as “bad omen birds”but the collectives defending public hospitals are not prophets of doom: they are optimists wanting to save our public system.
7,000 beds were closed in 2022
They denounce the false communication on providential billions which are only the addition of funds allocated to the private and public over the next decade, and recall the facts: we no longer count the number of emergency services “regulated” not to say closed (163 out of 389 in the summer of 2023), the queues for stretchers in hospital car parks – in Strasbourg, the car park saw a tent set up for Christmas to accommodate patients –, the prolonged waiting for the oldest patients leading to an excess mortality of 4%.
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