The emergency staff of the University Hospital of Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) voted on Friday in favor of a strike that will begin this Sunday night at midnight. “We will not abandon the population, but we will need users to denounce this situation: the calibration of the workforce no longer allows patients to be received in good conditions,” denounced Olivier Terrien, general secretary of the CGT at the CHU.
“Patients sometimes wait 72 hours on stretchers, there are 40 children to undergo heart surgery at the end of the year, for 11 ranges of operation, how do we do it? Shall we take luck? ”, She bristles against an“ authoritarian ”direction.
“The surgeons ask for additional operating ranges, the management refuses and the patients go to the clinic, where the largest portfolio is treated,” he laments. “It is the project of management, that of the government.”
“Fisting actions” at the beginning of the school year
Strike staff assigned by management will receive patients on Monday morning and during school holidays, a limited staff period, “but at the beginning of the school year we are planning drilling actions”, completes the 52-year-old caretaker.
“Working conditions are deteriorating, colleagues are exhausted, psychologically things are not going well,” according to Stéphane Naulleau, 57, a cardiac surgery nurse and general secretary of the Force Ouvrière (FO) union at the CHU.
“The discontent began a few days ago with an article in which Philippe El Saïr, general director of the University Hospital of Nantes, said that the University Hospital was attractive to caregivers, that there were no bed closures”, continues the unionist FO, ” o 16 beds were still closed in October.” Contacted by AFP, management could not immediately be reached.
Olivier Terrien compiles the figures: “The ARS (Regional Health Agency) itself says so: between 2015 and 2020, 700 surgical beds were closed, it is the most profitable and what the private sector seeks to absorb, but also 200 in obstetrics, 215 in psychiatry, 200 in follow-up and rehabilitation”.
A situation that will not improve with the construction of the future University Hospital of the Island of Nantes “which will lead to a new closure of 63 beds,” he warns.
Source: BFM TV
