Before the meeting with the prefect, the staff of the hospital center testified Tuesday morning to the exhaustion of the teams and the fear of seeing the quality of care suffer from shortages of staff.
On the occasion of the national strike of the hospital public service, it is the state of health of the hospitals that the mobilized agents testify. Tuesday morning, at the entrance to the emergency room of the hospital, the concern was shared by the staff, nursing and administrative, to whom the director of the establishment, Bertrand Tenèze, came to lend his support.
To the twenty users also present, Nathalie Casalé, employee of the hospital and general secretary of the public and health services FO Gers, gave an update on the situation, both in the hospital services and in that of the home nursing care (SSIAD) or even in nursing homes in the city. Everywhere, exhaustion is emerging. Faced with sick leave, burn-out, resignations, half-time therapy, etc., “we trigger degraded procedures to cope, going into 12 hours of daily work. The use of overtime is incessant. The delegate reports being fed up. “We have to stop calling late at night for replacements! »
For his part, Doctor Alexandre Baudouin, chairman of the hospital’s supervisory board, fears for the future. “We already know that the retirement of Doctor Faget will not be replaced immediately. Doctor Chevalier-Duflot must also leave. Renewal must be anticipated. On the emergency side, it works with reduced staff and problems are created at the slightest absence. Similarly, caregivers and nurses are squeezed like lemons. It’s a national problem, but it’s exacerbated in rural areas, when you’re 45 km from the next hospital. General practitioners like me see patients renouncing care”, deplores the practitioner who again recalls the request for an MRI for the establishment: “We need to have heavy equipment like this so that it does not there are no such renunciations”.
For the director of the hospital center: “This mobilization is legitimate. There is a real issue of recognition of work in the hospital environment, with a decline in attractiveness and an increase in hardship. The Condom hospital center must continue the projects in progress if it wants to keep its place on the territory and respond to the patients of this area of life”.