In a column published in the JDD on Sunday, December 15, 660 department heads, heads of care units and doctors threaten to resign if the government does not launch “real negotiations” to save the public hospital.
“The current minister does not fail to show her compassion, but the real Ministry of Health is now in Bercy”. In a column published in the Sunday newspaper Sunday, December 15, 660 doctors from renowned hospitals (Bichat, Robert-Debré, Pitié-Salpêtrière) threaten the government to resign if Agnès Buzyn does not launch “real negotiations”.
“The rigor has become austerity, then austerity, shortage”, denounce these heads of service, heads of care units and doctors who are considering an “unprecedented movement of disobedience”. Because according to them, the measures announced at the end of November by Edouard Philippe are not sufficient to meet the needs of the hospital “[Ces mesures] come down to less than 300 million additional euros for 2020, while the general opinion is that 1.3 billion euros are missing to meet the increase in charges alone”, they warn.
“The hospital is dying and the minister only administers palliative care to it”, they continue, before wondering: “How to force the government to open a Grenelle of the public hospital with a real funded plan meeting the needs? ?”
A national day of demonstrations and strikes on December 17
At the end of November, after eight months of crisis in public hospitals, Agnès Buzyn confirmed that the latter would immediately recover 415 million euros set aside in the Health Insurance budget this year. Edouard Philippe meanwhile announced a recovery of the date spread over three years and bonuses for staff. Despite everything, health professionals are not convinced by this “emergency plan”.
“When we are 1,000, we will address our letter to the Minister to urge her to open negotiations with the CIH [Collectif Inter-Hôpitaux] … or to join us”, conclude the authors of the forum. In the meantime, the Inter-Emergency and Inter-Hospital collectives and the hospital public service unions have planned a national day of strikes and demonstrations on Tuesday 17 December. The latter will therefore take place on the same day as the third day of national mobilization against the pension reform.
.
