The strike emergency is gaining momentum in France

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Published the 16.01.2018 at 13h06

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The strikes are linked in the emergency services for several weeks. Very difficult, the situation became unbearable with the outbreak of the winter swell in the number of consultations.
At Kremlin-Bicêtre, Val-de-Marne, the movement lasted about a week in the emergency department pediatric, driven by a lack of effective, though it is necessary for the proper reception of patients. It was at the end of the month of December.
At the same time in Bordeaux, hôpital Saint-André has also been on strike for the same reasons : a lack of staffing that causes a work overload for doctors, the nurse(e)s and using(s)-nursing(e)s. Monday, the strikers were demonstrating in the streets of Bordeaux before being heard by the Regional Agency of Health.

A filtering system

A Auch, in the Gers, the strike began Sunday. Again, it is a lack of staff, which is at the origin of the movement. Er physicians are forced to cope with a lack of staff not resolved, and a number of patients growing.
All emergency personnel is on strike. Since Monday, the entries are filtered, and everything that does not fall within the absolute urgency is redirected to other services.

A risk to the safety of patients

The emergency department of the hospital of Vannes in the Morbihan, are on strike since a week. The strikers are demanding more resources. In an article in the daily Telegram, a nurse confides anonymously : “I am not the motion to strike for my own safety but for that of their patients and above all for their dignity “.

Lack of staff, poor organisation of the service, the carers are no longer able to ensure the fundamental tasks. The list of reform priorities must be filed on Tuesday, the director of the institution. On Wednesday, a general assembly shall decide on the continuation or not of the strike.