Asked by Sonia Mabrouk about the death of a 38-year-old nurse at the hands of a man suffering from psychiatric disorders, the LFI deputy was moved by the tragedy and also expressed his indignation at the difficult living conditions. work of caregivers, particularly in psychiatric services: “Psychiatry is the poor relation of the hospital”, he said.
In addition to the police investigation, François Ruffin calls for a “social investigation”: “What happens when someone who has already attacked finds himself like that in nature? Is there has care? Was there any internment that was allowed? Did we economize on the walls?
He also returned to the working conditions of caregivers: “We have a hospital that is going badly, which is already poor, and inside that, psychiatry is the poor relation in the hospital. We saved net .Budgets have shrunk in psychiatry. I wish there was a humanity.”
“They don’t have the means to do their job”
According to the MP, the solution does not go through the multiplication of security devices but also through more care and means. “The minds are worn out after two years of the Covid crisis. We can clearly see that the mental state of the population is not good. I am devastated, for example, when I see in child psychiatry for children, children aged five , six, seven or eight years old who have to wait for six months or a year to have an appointment when they are not well”.
In the context of psychiatry, the MP believes that in some cases the care administered outside the hospital results above all from a desire to save money: “We know that it will cost less! We have to see what is care that we must be able to give. We must remember that they are sick and therefore it is a question of treating them with the maximum of humanity and allowing nurses, nurses, psychiatrists to be able to provide the care that “they are able to contribute. Today, they do not have the means to actually do their job”.