They denounce degraded working conditions, a lack of medical and paramedical staff as well as the increase in the workload linked to Covid. CGT 53 and Force Ouvrière (FO) filed a report with the public prosecutor of Mayenne on Friday, August 12, the unions announced in a press release.
“Today, we are reporting to you, Madam, Mr. Public Prosecutor, on the fact that the French State, by its decisions to close beds for many years, endangers hospital staff of Laval »say the unions.
They also alerted to the deterioration of the healthcare offer for patients. A situation which results, according to Maxime Lebigot, nurse and assistant secretary FO at the Laval hospital center, from the “psychological and physical suffering” health professionals.
Aid of 80 million euros for the establishment
Contacted by Agence France-Presse, the management of the Laval hospital center said “aware of the difficulties that hospital professionals may face”.
She wished to recall “the actions implemented to support the exceptional mobilization of hospital professionals in a post-crisis national context” like the activation of a “medico-administrative crisis unit which meets bi-weekly” 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 population”.
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 had announced that it would increase its aid to 80 million euros.