They take to the streets to defend our health. Heroes during the health crisis, these doctors, nurses and caregivers ask that the Ségur de la santé is not just an announcement effect. And that these meetings in spades on the future of the French public hospital make it possible to rebuild it and improve its functioning.
Beyond a salary increase of 300 euros for the 180 jobs in the hospital, the hospital staff wants, it’s not a scoop, more financial and human resources.
“Air France obtained billions without being applauded. We were applauded but we got nothing!”
And if they despair, they’re not going to give up. Their feeling is summarized by Professor Legré, from La Timone hospital in Marseille: “There is a slogan that goes around saying that Air France has obtained billions (7 billion euros in aid from the state) without having been applauded. We were applauded but we got nothing! “
Among the demands, an increase in salaries, an end to restructuring and closures of services, opening of beds …
“Apart from the Covid premium (from 500 to 1,500 euros for hospital staff) which does not satisfy everyone because many are excluded, well, there is nothing else engages, Danielle Ceccaldi of the CGT Union departmental health of Bouches-du-Rhône, who unpacks the demands as she would read her shopping list, so they are not new. We are fighting for wage increases, for stopping restructuring, for stopping service closures, for opening beds or increasing staff. Twhatsoever must happen at Segur, for the moment, nothing has really progressed. “
“The economic management of the hospital must be rethought”
Proof of urgency, in addition to unions, collectives are mobilizing, like the CIH (Collective Inter-Hospitals), apolitical and non-unionized. Professor Legré is one of them and “does not believe that we should sum up our demands to a salary problem:” I am given 300 euros and the problem is solved “. But that is not what will solve the problem. It is economic management hospital that needs to be redesigned. Maybe it was not necessary to do it in a hurry this Ségur. It was necessary to say: “we are going to discuss health problems”. It seems a bit complicated to me to settle the end of deconfinement at the same time as the health problem in France. “
Caregivers call on the French, especially those who applauded them during the confinement, to join these demonstrations.
Meetings of events
In Marseille :
- 11am: Porte d’Aix or on the Old Port
- 2 p.m. from La Timone hospital to reach La Conception hospital
In Draguignan:
- 11:30 am in front of the sub-prefecture
In Toulon:
- 11:30 am Place de la Liberté
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