The emergencies were already on the verge of asphyxiation last December, with two thirds of doctors missing.
CGT 53 and Force Ouvrière filed a report on Friday with the public prosecutor of Mayenne, alerting to “the endangerment of Laval hospital staffin a context of regular emergency room closures and a lack of beds, we learned in a press release.
“Today, we report to you, Madam, Mr. Public Prosecutor, on the fact that the French State, by its decisions to close beds for many years, endangers the hospital staff of Laval“, said the unions. They denounce degraded working conditions, a lack of medical and paramedical staff as well as the increase in the workload linked to Covid.
A deterioration in the supply of care
The unions have also warned of the deterioration in the supply of care for patients. A situation that arises, according to Maxime Lebigot, nurse and assistant secretary FO at the Laval hospital center of the “psychological and physical suffering» health professionals. Contacted by AFP, the management of the Laval hospital center said to itself “aware of the difficulties that hospital professionals may face“. She wished to recallthe actions implemented to support the exceptional mobilization of hospital professionals in a national post-crisis context” like the activation of a “medico-administrative crisis unit which meets twice a week” as well as “weekly social dialogue meetings between management and representatives of trade unions“.
Closed multiple times in recent months, the Laval hospital emergency room was already on the verge of asphyxiation in December, with two-thirds of doctors missing. In October, staff went on an indefinite strike over a situation they considered “disastrous for the people“. In January, while aid of 30 million euros for this establishment had been announced by Minister Olivier Véran as part of the Ségur de la Santé, the State then announced that it would increase its aid to 80 million euros.