A confidential note from the intelligence services refers to emergencies “on the verge of implosion”. In question, the saturation of hospitals and caregivers.
Emergencies are under tension. A confidential note from the central territorial intelligence service, unveiled this Tuesday by the daily on Parisian-Today in France, draws up the picture of the emergency services “confronted with saturation”.
“Verbal jousting”, “patient insults” … So many violent situations that hospital caregivers have to face. For the authors of this note, these tensions are linked to “a deterioration in the quality of reception”. They evoke an aggravating factor for this winter: the flu. With more than 2 million people affected this year, hospital staff are overwhelmed.
Stress, exhaustion
This note addressed to the President of the Republic, the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Health, highlights working conditions conducive to “stress and exhaustion”. An observation which nevertheless gave rise to “a certain discontent which was characterized by a few gatherings in France”, recall the authors.
According to Parisian-Today in France, the note mentions the case of several hospitals, denouncing the overcrowding of emergencies and the lack of beds, such as the emergency rooms of Lens on strike since February 18, the regional hospital of Orléans where the paramedical staff announced an indefinite strike since 1er March or even the Le Mans hospital where the movement has been going on for over a month.
Breaking point
Faced with the anger that is roaring among health professionals, the authors recall that, “given the economic fragility of hospitals and the announcements of budgetary restrictions, some protest movements could take shape. “
But despite Marisol Touraine’s commitment this week not to cut jobs and the agreement signed on December 23 establishing overtime pay beyond 39 hours, health professionals are far from reassured.
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