“We are really not up to the stakes” estimates the neurologist François Salachas

“We are really not up to the stakes”, reacted Tuesday March 9 on franceinfo the doctor François Salachas, neurologist at the hospital of Pitié-Salpétrière, member of the Inter-Hospitals collective (CIH), while the Prime Minister Jean Castex presented the investment component resulting from the debates of the Segur of health, on the sidelines of a trip to the Nièvre. A global envelope of 19 billion euros over ten years will thus be injected into the health system.

“We can of course rejoice in the fact that we seem to be taking action on a number of decisions that had already been taken”, recognizes François Salachas. “It may be a little boost. It is difficult to know what is the part of the announcement effect in the fact of finally deciding to fight against the dilapidation of the park of the public hospital in France.” But above all, the doctor denounces “the scandal of having bored the hospital deteriorate to this point”. He does not find “very honest to present this as a new 19 billion euro plan”. According to him, “when you look at it more closely, it is not money anymore, it is money that had already been announced. And that does not solve the chronic illness of the hospital which is the fact that everything is done so that each year, the hospital goes into debt. And so, as the hospital goes into debt, it will recreate its debt “.

François Salachas believes that with this announcement, the State is committed “simply to drag a third of the debt to a fund that supports it“. But he points out that it is “in terms of economy” that hospitals will see “the benefit of this support”. It is therefore “a hospital savings plan that does not say its name”. Outside the premises of hospitals to which “we must remedy”, the government’s plan “does not solve the problem of the attractiveness and confidence of the staff who have to come to work at the public hospital”.

François Salachas wishes to recall that the salary of a French nurse, “compared to OECD countries” is located “in the 28th place”. If he admits that there is no “that the money that counts”, car “there are other things that could make caregivers stay in the public hospital”, He underlines “that there was no miracle “ on this salary issue, “there was a boost”. He takes the opportunity to denounce the communication of the Minister of Health Olivier Véran on this subject that he finds “quite unworthy”. The Minister “claims that a nurse will have a salary increase of around 600 euros” most “forget to say” that to have this increase, “that’s if she agrees to spend 35 to 40 person hours per week”.

The neurologist adds that it is necessary “give back” to caregivers “on governance” so that they “keep the desire or want to work in the public hospital”. “For the moment, nothing has changed on that side. The administrative director of the hospital remains the sole master on board. And whether it is the doctors or the paramedics, the executives, they have no voice. in chapter “, insists François Salachas.

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