Focused on international issues and surprisingly discreet since his re-election at the Elysée, Emmanuel Macron has decided to return to the field to deal with Franco-French problems. And thus try to counter the trial of immobility – even absenteeism – that the opposition is beginning to instruct against him. One month after his last trip to the national scene « au contact »the Head of State went to Cherbourg, in the Channel, on Tuesday May 31, to look into the “systemic crisis” health sector, with overcrowded hospitals and growing medical deserts. And above all, in the short term, see how to respond to a situation deemed very critical in the emergency services. With a lack of staff auguring a complicated summer to manage, throughout the territory.
According to those around him, the Head of State wanted ” to take the pulse “ of the emergency department of Cherbourg, which has six caregivers, while it would take twenty-five to take care of patients in a suitable manner. He was served. As soon as he arrived at the end of the afternoon at the Cotentin public hospital center, Emmanuel Macron was confronted with a series of testimonies, each more alarmist than the other. Like a succession of heartfelt cries from these whistleblowers in white coats, who reported on their increasingly difficult working conditions. “We can’t do it anymore. We are exhausted”launched an emergency doctor, during a round table with “all health actors” (emergency physicians, nurses, general practitioners, administration), “access to urgent and unscheduled care”. Before doctors became alarmed at having to run their wards with “exhausted staff”which are increasingly numerous in ” leave “after having notably been on the front line for two years, during the Covid-19 crisis.
“The situation is very, very serious”alerted Doctor Antoine Leveneur, president of the regional union of liberal doctors. “There are no more arms in the hospital and there are no more arms in town”he was alarmed, summing up the problem: “How to organize care to meet the needs of the population? » Most said they felt “a loss of meaning” in their work. “It is difficult to recruit, there is a real malaise in the profession”explained an emergency manager, with “caregivers struck in their value”. “It’s complicated to send someone home, telling them that there is nothing urgent. It is the human that we manage above all. »
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