DISCOMFORT – After a summer deemed “catastrophic” at the Nantes University Hospital and elsewhere, the departmental trade unions of Loire-Atlantique are calling on the population to demonstrate with the caregivers on Saturday
“We are asking for beds and arms! A real policy, not one of destruction!” While the new Prime Minister Michel Barnier devoted his first trip to health, visiting Necker hospital on Saturday, anger is brewing in many French hospitals. In Nantes, an inter-union demonstration is due to start on Saturday, after a summer deemed “catastrophic” by six unions who decided to speak with one voice on Monday.
“The resigning minister Valletoux said that it was better this summer, while we are witnessing a complete disintegration of the health service, deplores Jérémy Beurel, deputy general secretary of FO at the Nantes University Hospital. We have reached 350 closed beds in total at the Nantes University Hospital, patients have waited dozens of hours on a stretcher, there have been several deaths [un chiffre démenti par la direction du CHU, ndlr]…Is this really acceptable?”
Around fifty hospitals under pressure
In the region, the night closure of the Ancenis emergency room and the ongoing difficulties in Laval (Mayenne) seem to have put the CHU into overdrive. But as every summer for several years, problematic situations have been recorded elsewhere in France. In Brest(…) - 20minutes
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