Difficult working conditions, long days, and consistently low wages in relation to the services provided have been the norm for nurses for decades. So this category of caregivers, indispensable both in the hospital and in the city, revolts, shows anger and tries to get improvements.
The nurses and hospital agents of the Tronche demonstrate against the "hospital-factory". They believe that the public hospital lacks staff and that working conditions are deficient.
The striking nurses protested on the street against the cancellation of a decree, on the basis of a complaint by a medical biologist, which broadened the scope of their jurisdiction. Interview one of them: "Our situation is difficult at the level of hospitals because too few staff; as a liberal there is a fee-for-service, any humanistic dimension is removed".
The nurses have been camping for 5 nights on Avenue de Ségur, in front of the Ministry of Health, to obtain a response to their demands. Report in the middle of the camp of nurses who receive many expressions of solidarity. Interviews with Rosie MEDINA, nurse, Eric RABETTE, nurse in Limoges and Maurice BENZAKIN, psychiatric nurse.
The nurses' strike is well attended in the regions, with more than 75% of them. They are calling for an increase in their salaries and a better recognition of their profession.