“Say how much you earn!” “, Harangue Marie-Hélène Amiable, the mayor (PCF) of Bagneux, in a cry muffled by her mask. Behind the microphone, Fathia hesitates. “1,380 euros at the end of their career …” she finally lets go. General hoot.
This Tuesday evening, this assistant in a nursing home in Malakoff spoke to a good hundred people, gathered on the Thorez plain, in Bagneux. There, a citizen rally was planned to denounce the lack of resources in public hospitals, on the sidelines of the Paris demonstration.
Some caregivers from the Béclère hospital in Clamart should have been present in Bagneux. But they were still stuck in Paris at 7 p.m. ” The hero are tired, demotivated, exasperated by so much contempt ”, launched a Balneolese spokesperson, reading a text written by the carers of Béclère.
Through this spokesperson, they recalled in particular that, in their hospital, “156 of them fell ill and one died” during the health crisis. “Today, the population supports us and we appreciate it. But what will the government remember? That we can continue like this without material means? “
“Show that we are still here”
“It was hard this crisis, abounds Fathia, the auxiliary of Malakoff, after having released the microphone. In my Ehpad, there were six cases of Covid, two people died. I was stressed, I was afraid of transmitting the disease to my family when I returned home in the evening. “
At 8 p.m., a metallic rattling concert sounded, symbolically, in the sky over the Thorez plain. Residents, sympathizers and unionists gathered tapped on pans, cymbals and even drums to pay tribute to the caregivers.
“It’s important to show that we’re still there,” says Martine, a resident, pan in one hand, wooden spoon in the other. It is not because the applause is no longer at 8 p.m. that we forget the caregivers and their situation. “
“The feeling of having been forgotten”
The objective is therefore to “mark the occasion”, loose Hélène Cillières, assistant to the mayor of Bagneux. “We want to alert the public authorities. An emergency plan is needed, argues Marie-Hélène Amiable, the mayor (PCF). We need more beds in hospitals. Wages must also be increased. “And to recall the example of the Béclère hospital, where the emergencies” have almost closed several times for lack of staff “.
