2023-07-04 20:04:05
The unions of hospital doctors who were on strike on Tuesday for salary increases, came out disappointed with their meeting with the Ministry of Health in Paris. There is “no calendar, no envelope, no money order“to resume the discussions suspended in mid-May, “however, see you in Septembersummed up Doctor Frank Boudghene, vice-president of the Snam-HP union.
Two unions or union alliances, Alliance Hospital (which includes Snam-HP) and INPH called for a strike on Tuesday. These two formations had signed the Ségur de la Santé agreements in July 2020, which had increased the salaries of all hospital staff. Another inter-union, Action Praticiens Hospitaliers, not a signatory of the Ségur de la Santé, had for its part called for a strike on Monday. Doctors who have the status of hospital practitioners are approximately 45,000. They work in hospitals with around 40,000 contract doctors and 6,000 university hospital doctors. The demands of their unions relate in particular to the revaluation of night and weekend guards.
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They are coupled with demands on the revaluation of the salary grid (acceleration of access to the last level in particular), or the retirement of hospital-university staff. According to psychiatrist Béatrice Aubriot (CMH), “the only point where it seems that we can advance is that of the guards. But I’m afraid it’s only a matter of prolonging“Measures that already exist, she said. In the evening, the office of the Minister of Health clarified that François Braun was “convinced that new measures must be taken in terms of upgrading night and weekend duty».
«This work continues at the interdepartmental level. The Minister is fully mobilized to provide rapid and concrete responses“, according to the same source. At the beginning of the summer of 2022, François Braun, just appointed Minister of Health, had upgraded the guards by 50%, as part of temporary measures which have been regularly renewed since. According to the unions, the status of hospital practitioner is less and less advantageous and doctors are turning away from it, to join the private sector in particular.
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