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Monday 05/30/2022 at 09h45
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By La Provence (with AFP)
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AP-HP hospitals are short of 1,400 nurses, said Monday the director general of the Ile-de-France hospital group, Martin Hirsch, while caregivers are increasing calls for help in the face of the lack of staff.
“We, at the AP-HP compared to other hospitals, our problem is with the nurses (…) We have 1,000 fewer than a year ago at the same time, we had planned to create 400 additional positions, we could not create them, so we are missing 1,400 nurses compared to what we would like to have”explained Martin Hirsch on France Inter radio.
“Some have changed jobs, some have gone into the private sector, some have gone to the provinces, some have not come to work after graduating last summer. (…) and there are many who use this soft drug of the interim, which puts us in an absolutely terrible situation”added Martin Hirsch.
At the AP-HP, 15% beds remain closed on average, for lack of carers, he underlined, while hospitals across France are warning about the lack of staff for this summer in emergency services.
“Before, when you graduated, you weren’t allowed to set up as a temporary worker. Temporary workers in health professions where there is no unemployment (…), that means ‘I do the choice to work when I want, when I can, paid three times more than the others'”commented Martin Hirsch, who described the temporary workers as “mercenaries”.
Health is one of the three “emergency room” which the government must tackle, alongside the climate and purchasing power, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Friday, at the end of a region in Matignon with her government.
Faced with the shortage of personnel in hospitals, Elisabeth Borne assured, at the end of this meeting, that she had asked the “ministers concerned” to him “to make proposals very quickly to take effective measures for the summer”.
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