MAINTENANCE – In all OECD countries, there is a disaffection for the care professions, according to Amélie Verdier, director of the regional health agency of Île-de-France.
Amélie Verdier is director of the Ile-de-France regional health agency.
LE FIGARO. – What is the extent of the shortage of caregivers in Île-de-France?
Amelie VERDIER. – In Paris and in the inner suburbs there is a shortage of nurses, in the outer suburbs there is a shortage of doctors. The situation is very difficult. These tensions are explained first of all by a very strong economic effect linked to Covid: Île-de-France experienced all the waves very intensely, with the exception of the fourth. Each time we think it’s over, we leave the white plane, then we fall back into it. It’s exhausting for all caregivers, for surgical nurses who have had to work in intensive care support. France is not the only one concerned, it is a global phenomenon: in all OECD countries, there is a disaffection for the care professions, because this crisis has been trying, scared and the ‘we don’t know if it’s really over.
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