(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #252 (n° spécial) -
Health: Personal exhausted, patients at risk (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation]
Martin Hirsch, director of the Public-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), wants to reduce RTT
personal. But unless leave is less well insured health service and toasts. Facing the
disaster foretold, the strike will continue until the withdrawal of the project. ----
Caregivers of the AP-HP are in the street. Renewable strike. Oh! Not all are out to
demonstrate. In health, there are required personnel. They bossent even strikers.
Inevitably, we must care for the sick. In health, 35 hours, it is mostly theoretical. They
often 45 hours, people! In the street I hear them shouting: "Hands off our RTT!" ---- The
current situation is unacceptable, and Mr. Hirsch, director of the AP-HP, still wants it
worse, by removing these recoveries ... justified nurses and auxiliary nurses already
inherit a difficult situation because of their clerical origin: health was once appannage
of the Church, nuns, and therefore underpaid. Wages are therefore far from outlandish,
overruns and schedule almost unavoidable. With the government's intention to make 10
billion already devastated economy on this sector, three billion on hospitals, in a
context of overwork is the rule, the solution can only come from intense struggles.
burn out
Cut jobs while health is already in deficit, is forced to go beyond their personal limits.
They are pushed to the fault. And the fault in the health field, it falls on the patient.
Families can file a complaint, and the administration is blame to staff. With this regime
there, people crack under the harassment of young leaders. And departures on leave because
of burnout, this translates into more work overload for those who hold up.
There should be better linkage sectors in struggle, on all the threatened closing
hospitals. And many are only in the Paris area: the Hotel-Dieu, the Val-de-Grace, Bichat
and Beaujon, and northern suburbs, Villiers-le-Bel.
sale to the private health
I think useful to recall the death of a sexagenarian, last year in Cochin, in the
emergency waiting room. Suspected cardiac death, discovered six hours after death. The
Defence Committee of the Hotel Dieu including myself had a warning six months earlier with
the Casimir operation. We were taken to the Pantheon the first death linked to the closure
of emergencies.
Governmental unconsciousness? Not at all! Deliberate attempt to destroy the public
service, and sell private health, for example Générale de Santé. The patient becomes a
client, and health merchandise. And of course, this creates inequalities in access to
care, and it costs generally more expensive than public service. That is neoliberalism ...
France (Paris G-Northeast)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Sante-Personnels-extenues-patients
