At the Saint-Louis Hospital, the lack of night nurses highlights a hematology service, alerts the health care team, which fears to close “in very short term”.
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The strength of the symbol. Hematology at Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris (10 e ), constitutes a flagship of the discipline. We come from the whole region to heal. From the rest of Europe to train. It is, however, this service, and more precisely its clinical immunopathology floor, in charge of rare diseases and certain hematological cancers, which is threatened with closure, wants to alert the health care team.
Personal and patients call for a rally on Tuesday, April 19th in front of the Paris Public Assistance (AP-HP), anchored northeast of the capital. The service will no longer be able to operate “in very short term”, warn in a letter addressed to the candidates for the presidential election. At issue: the lack of night nurses.
As of 1 e June, the table of guards does not count more registrants, according to the doctors of the service. Impossible to ensure permanence and safety of care. Since September, the night team of this service in which a strong technicality is required, has been decimated: there are two nurses, instead of the necessary twelve – and one of them is going this summer. It is thus caregivers of the day team, it is full, which relax at night, with parallel an ever more important appeal to the interim.
“In the long run, it becomes difficult, the change of rhythm, for the body but also socially, summarizes Jordan the Solliec, 29 years old, nurse spent on night schedules since January, who will return to his day position In May. We cling, but we know that in the long run, it is not going to do it, people are exhausted, they will leave … The situation is really saddened, especially for patients. “
“At the edge of a red line”
“Recognizing the hard work of night work and to value it significantly”, write the signatories of the candidate alert, denouncing the derisory level currently practiced, with a compensation of 9, 63 gross euros per night. “The public authorities must give the hospital the means to ensure its mission,” they support.
“We feel that we arrive at the edge of a red line, the quality of care is deteriorating,” worries the Hematologist Marion Malphettes. The Saint-Louis doctor starts having to refuse patients or shift chemotherapy, while the service, which receives a thousand patients a year, has more than fourteen beds since the summer, against twenty-three before. “All services are affected, there are closed beds everywhere,” resumes the hematologist.
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