Question 15602 — hospital public service

Summary

Mr. Julien Limongi draws the attention of the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and People with Disabilities to the statutory situation of ambulance drivers working within mobile emergency and resuscitation services (SMUR). These professionals remain classified in category C of the hospital civil service, even though their missions far exceed the scope of this category. Beyond driving vehicles intervention, SMUR ambulance crews ensure the management, verification and preparation of all on-board medical equipment, namely monitoring devices, oxygen therapy, ventilation, immobilization and perfusion. In the field, they actively participate in patient care by placing electrodes, preparing diagnostic equipment, monitoring vital signs and ensuring the stretcher. They therefore constitute an essential link in the pre-hospital emergency care chain, alongside doctors and nurses. This level of technicality, responsibility and exposure to risks, whether road, physical or linked to life-threatening emergency situations, would justify increased statutory recognition. A reclassification in nursing category B would bring their situation into line with the reality of their professional exercise and would give them access to the specific retirement system attached to active jobs. In a context of hospital tension and recruitment difficulties, this development would constitute a strong signal in favor of the attractiveness of this profession. He therefore asks whether the Government plans to conduct an opportunity study on the reclassification of SMUR ambulance workers in category B, including a assessment of the number of professionals concerned throughout the national territory as well as an estimate of the budgetary cost of such a measure, both in terms of index and retirement rights.

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