Nine unions (CGT, FO, CFTC, CFE-CGC, FSU, Solidaires, FGR-FP, LSR, Ensemble et solidaires) have just launched a campaign to demand “another health policy in France and equal care for the Seine -Saint-Denis. Their first event — distribution of leaflets and circulation of a petition — was held this Monday at the André-Grégoire hospital in Montreuil. Other actions will follow in Bobigny, Saint-Denis, Aulnay, Montfermeil and Bondy, before submitting the petitions to the prefecture of Seine-Saint-Denis and the regional health agency in December.
The reasons for this mobilization are numerous: “Few or no school doctors in schools; overwhelmed emergency rooms, even though they are the last resort before giving up care; a quarter of the inhabitants, who do not have a treating doctor…”, lists Claude Simon, secretary of the union of retirees CGT 93 and spokesperson for the inter-union, whose objective is to establish “a report by force with the national and prefectural authorities.”
“All professions are affected”
The organizers of this campaign received the support of MP (PCF) Stéphane Peu, co-author of a parliamentary report which denounces the failures of the State in Seine-Saint-Denis, published in November 2023. It listed, among other things, the recruitment problems of public hospitals, the growing number of social security holders without a treating doctor, the difficulties of the maternity ward of the Delafontaine hospital in Saint-Denis. “In terms of health, there is discrimination on top of all the others,” he denounces.
No less concerned, the public health establishment of Ville-Evrard, whose territory of action extends over 80% of the department, “is deteriorating day by day”, testifies Sonia Bardeaux, CGT general secretary of the hospital. psychiatric. According to her, there is a shortage of 70 psychiatrists (out of 253 doctors) and 80 nurses (out of 2,284 non-medical nursing staff). “All professions are affected and the lack is cruelly felt in the north of the department,” she specifies.
Last year, an inter-union of teachers – which returned to service at the last school year – also launched a mobilization campaign to demand “an emergency plan for Seine-Saint-Denis”, listing in particular the number of teachers, teaching assistants and other AESH missing throughout the department. The health sector inter-union is not there yet, their spokesperson responds: “We are working on this issue and we are going to contact elected officials for more precise information,” promises Claude Simon.
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