The second hospital public service union, FO-Santé, has filed a strike notice which will take effect on Tuesday 10 January. He denounces an “unprecedented” degradation of the health system.
After the liberal doctors, the hospital’s turn to consider the strike. The second hospital public service union, FO-Santé, called on Wednesday for an “unlimited strike” from January 10, denouncing the “extremely degraded situation” in the sector and the “inaction” of the government.
Against “unacceptable working conditions” and “the endangerment of a number of exhausted patients and hospital workers”, FO-Santé indicates in a statement having filed an “unlimited strike notice” which “will take effect from Tuesday January 10 at midnight”.
This prior notice concerns “medical and non-medical personnel, agents of public hospital service establishments (health, social and medico-social sector)”.
FO asks for 200.00 recruitments
Yet a signatory of the “Ségur de la santé” in 2020, the union – reinforced by its second place in the December elections – calls for “a radical change in health policy” and blames “the inertia of the government” which “has not done than accelerating the closures of beds and services”.
FO denounces the “current situation of deterioration, unprecedented in the history of our health system” which “leads agents to sick leaves for exhaustion, abandonment of posts, resignation or no longer renewing their contracts” .
The health system is particularly under tension for several weeks because of a triple epidemic of Covid-19, bronchiolitis and influenza, which weighs on the emergency services, but also structural difficulties, as denounced by several doctors. In Thionville (Moselle) for example, according to union sources, 55 nurses and caregivers out of the 59 who work in emergencies were placed on sick leave at the end of last weekdue to exhaustion.
As a remedy for the “overwhelmed emergency services”, the “recurring lack of doctors” or even the “great suffering” of psychiatry – among other grievances – FO-Santé claims “200,000 recruitments in the health sectors, social and medico-social”.
