François Braun recognizes an “old problem”

2023-05-03 10:16:13

The Minister of Health, François Braun, responded to the demands of medical interns during an interview with France Inter, Wednesday May 3. Some of the 30,000 interns were on strike on Friday April 28 to denounce their working conditions.

“It is not normal that we do not respect the working time for doctors in training, a noted the minister. I will hunt down establishments that do not respect the rules. »

Work time “blithely exceeds the authorized legal maximum” of forty-eight hours per week, and reached “sometimes more than 100 hours a week”said Guillaume Bailly, vice-president of the Intersyndicale Nationale des Internes (ISNI), on Europe 1, Friday. “You don’t learn your trade by working 80 or 100 hours a week”, replied the minister.

An “old” problem

The government, for its part, established by decree at the beginning of the year “a financial penalty device” to penalize hospitals “who do not respect the regulations relating to working time” interns.

“It is an old problem in the functioning of our hospitals, where the interns were forced to thank you”, recognized François Braun. The medical interns had already called for a strike on Friday June 18 and Saturday June 19, 2021. They have only one demand: not to work ” what “ forty-eight hours a week.

“Already, in 2019, interns in France worked an average of 58.4 hours per week. And it didn’t get better.”especially with the Covid-19 crisis, then alerted Gaétan Casanova, president of ISNI at the time. “We put ourselves in danger physically, psychologically”hammered the intern in anesthesia-resuscitation, investigations in support.

A study carried out in 2017 at the initiative of the ISNI pointed out that 23.7% of interns had already had suicidal thoughts, 28% had suffered from depressive disorders, and 66% from anxiety disorders. “And it is also dangerous for the patientadded Gaétan Casanova. When, at the end of shift, it is difficult to make a subject/verb/complement sentence, I would like someone to explain to me how we can take care of a patient in an optimal way. »

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