The “unlimited” strike notice of the Versailles emergency physicians begins this Thursday. They crack in front of an understaffed passed from “chronic to acute” because of Euro 2016.
“Madam Director, we have the honor to deposit with you a unlimited strike notice concerning the conditions of practice of the doctors of the Pôle d’Urgences (SAMU-SMUR-RPS-SAU) of the André Mignot Hospital Center from Thursday, June 9, 2016. It concerns urgent and non-urgent care ”.
The letter sent by emergency physicians at the Versailles public hospital to their management last week testifies to exasperation. And this Wednesday, the National Union of Hospital Anesthesiologists
“In a difficult demographic context with a small staff and under pressure, the practitioners of the Emergency Department of the Hospital of Versailles (SAMU 78 SMUR of Versailles, Service d’Accueil des Urgences et Permanence des Care Ambulatory) are called upon to integrate the system. Euro 2016 relief, ”he laments.
Euro 2016 disrupts Ile-de-France emergencies
Indeed, care teams in Ile-de-France are currently asked to strengthen the SAMU and SMUR directly concerned by Euro 2016 football (from June 10 to July 10, 2016). This “without any anticipation of the consequences that this measure will have on the activity of the emergency reception services”, estimates the union. The latter even goes so far as to say that “the problems of understaffing” will thus pass “from chronic to acute!” ”
The hospital practitioners of this Pole therefore ask “for the human resources to accomplish their missions and the fair recognition of their investment”. They demand without delay “the recognition of their working time”, by the application of an instruction of July 2015 (1) fixing at 48 hours the maximum weekly working time of hospital emergency physicians (39 hours of clinical work and 9 reserved non-clinical tasks).
In addition, doctors are calling for the immediate adoption of measures to promote the attractiveness of posts and therefore the recruitment of practitioners in these services. “Aware of their responsibility towards patients, they (the emergency physicians of Versailles) refuse a decline in their working conditions, leading to an increase in inequalities in the care of the population”, concludes the SNPHAR-E.
(1) Instruction DGOS / RH4 no 2015-234 of July 10, 2015 relating to the national repository for the management of medical working time in SAMU, SMUR and emergency services
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