COVID-19: a monthly premium will be paid to critical care services nurses

A premium of 100 euros net will be paid to them in January to materialize “an essential recognition for these services,” said the Prime Minister. Some 24,000 people would be concerned.

Le Monde with AFP

In the aftermath of restrictions due to the fifth wave of Covid-19 and the propagation of the Omicron Variant, the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, announced, Tuesday, December 28, the payment of a monthly premium in the amount of 100 euros net to the nurses of critical care and resuscitation services.

“These services require a qualification, a strong technicality and the difficulty of this task can affect the attractiveness in these services,” said the Prime Minister, stating that the “intention [government] is to follow the guidelines “of a report from the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (IGAS) on the subject, that the Minister of Health will present next week.

Some 24,000 people are involved in this salary revaluation, according to Mr Castex, who was expressed at the end of a visit, alongside the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, a resuscitation service. Intercommunal hospital center of Créteil.

Materialize an “essential recognition”

“We will implement in January 2022, one of the strong measures proposed by this report, which is to grant for nurses of these critical care services, it still has about 24,000 in France , a premium recognizing this specificity, this technicality, 100 euros per month, which will be paid in January, “he said.

“It is, in the extension of the efforts that the nation is in respect of the segur of health, an indispensable recognition for these services, of which it obviously has eminently need more than ever in the current crisis that we cross with the Arrival of the Omicron Variant, “said the leader of the government, who once again emphasized the importance of vaccination.

Next measures that must be announced by Mr Véran, established from the IGAS report, will be a “complete plan”, according to the words of the Prime Minister, in order to “review the attractiveness, the training, Qualification, professional conditions in these critical care services, to recognize the technicality of those who work there “.

/Media reports.