There are emergency in hospitals. It is not the doctors who wave the red cloth in a new strike callbut, exceptionally, the central territorial intelligence service of the Ministry of the Interior. The note classified confidential, of which Le Parisien had the exclusivity, arrived on the offices of the Elysee, the Prime Minister and the ministries of Health and the Interior. Its content confirms what hospital staff have been denouncing for months: the emergency services are “sick with massive congestion”.
At the origin of its ills, the increasingly difficult daily life of a staff close to “burn-out”. The teams are exhausted by degraded working conditions as well as by recent epidemics of gastro and flu.
Another scourge: saturation of services linked in particular to the reduction in the number of beds available. This problem contributes to “saturating emergency hospital services as well as short-term hospitalization units, in particular with elderly patients,” the note specifies.
No wonder some establishments on the verge of rupture are on strike like the hospital in Lens (Pas-de-Calais), the hospital in Orléans-la-Source (Loiret), and the hospitals in Le Mans. (Sarthe) and Roanne (Loire).
The risk of contagion is not ruled out and could give rise to a social conflagration. “Given the economic fragility of hospitals and the announcements of budget cuts, some protest movements could take shape,” general intelligence continues.
This warning from the RG comes at a time when Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced a “major health conference” to reflect on the health bill, the examination of which begins in the Social Affairs Committee in the Assembly from March 17.
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