1200 hospital doctors resign from their management functions (Le Monde)

According to them, 600 million euros are missing from the additional 200 million released for 2020 by the government in favor of the public hospital.

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The gesture, unprecedented, testifies to the extent of the crisis experienced by the public hospital. Nearly 1 hospital doctors, including 200 department heads and 600 unit managers, will officially announce, Tuesday, January 470, during a press conference, their resignation from their functions. of administration, management and representation, in the absence of negotiation with the government on the means of the public hospital.

In some establishments, the movement is massive: in Marseille, for example, around fifty department heads are taking part in the operation. They are nineteen in Limoges, fifteen in Nantes...

In a letter addressed to the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, and published by Libération, resigning doctors share their “deep disappointment at the inadequacy of the emergency plan” announced on November 20, 2019. According to their calculations, 600 million euros are missing to the additional 200 million released for 2020 by the government in favor of the public hospital. "It's too little, too partial, too spread out over time", they judge.

“We are aware that the shortcomings or errors of the past cannot be corrected in two years, but there is urgency. The deterioration in the working conditions of professionals is such that it calls into question the quality of care and threatens patient safety. »

Political gesture

This collective action comes after a long mobilization of paramedics from emergency services and two national demonstrations by hospital staff. "It's a political gesture that says that we doctors can't go on like this," explains André Grimaldi, from the Interhospital Collective, who initiated the action. "This is the ultimate battle, one of the last

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