2023-07-03 16:32:21
This Monday, more than 50% of hospital doctors declared themselves strikers according to the unions at the origin of this social movement, which asked to be received by Emmanuel Macron. Their objective: to obtain wage increases.
“We are between 50 and 100% participation in the strike“, affirmed during a press conference the emergency doctor Jean-François Cibien, president of the inter-union Action Practitioners Hospital (APH) who called for this day of action. As examples, he advanced a rate 80% of strikers in La Rochelle, and 65% in Annecy.
“We have never seen so many people mobilizing”
As usual, the strike did not interrupt the activity of hospitals, doctors being assigned as needed to ensure continuity of care. But for anesthetist Anne Wernet, “in the memory of a trade unionist, we have never seen so many people who mobilize and not only in the post specialties“like his.
Symptom of the “degraded situation“of one”hospital in the process of being emptied of the supply of care“, underlined the psychiatrist Emmanuel Loeb, recalling the 30% of unfilled positions, largely occupied by temporary workers, interns or foreign doctors.
The fault of “a loss of purchasing power of more than 20% in twenty years“, In “a context of declining medical demographics“, explained resuscitator Yves Rebuffat, lamenting: “the fewer we are, the less we are paid to stay in the hospital“.
Upgrade night guards
The demands focus in particular on night guards, which the Minister of Health François Braun nevertheless increased by 50% upon his arrival in July 2022 – the compensation now exceeds 400 euros gross for 12 hours of service. But the measure is only extended until the end of August and negotiations are at a standstill, pending arbitration from Bercy and Matignon. “We worked, we built things” Then “we are told that there is no more envelope“to finance it, regretted Mr. Cibien.
“We want 500 to 600 euros“for these guards and let them be”considered for retirement“, he summed up, asking “to be received by the President of the Republic” to win the case.
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