The professionals of the Rabat Children's Hospital: teachers, doctors, and paramedical and administrative staff, were invited by the director of the CHU on 07/06/2012 for an informative meeting about his project for the restructuring of the hospital.

Not surprised by the director's arrogance, the audience, and in particular the teachers of this hospital, were however sickened by the humiliation and intimidation he expressed through his presentation relating, according to his vision, the anomalies and dysfunctions of the Rabat Children's Hospital by making his own analysis of the statistics and data which translate, according to him, the activity of all the hospital's services. This analysis, which was the basis of the proposed restructuring project, did not, at any time, take into account the real working conditions, nor the deficient means from which all the services suffer and for which the administration is of course the first responsible, nor even the general context through which the hospital is passing.

Indeed, the majority of doctors and teachers have been in conflict, for more than a year, with the hospital's administration, a conflict which has manifested itself through several press releases and recently through sit-ins denouncing the way in which the director manages the hospital and the segregation and hatred she has sown within this establishment. Furthermore, the project is proposed while a hospital reform is in full preparation and should be the basis for any restructuring. Finally, the reflection commission whose members were appointed by the director of the CHU deliberately excluded the professional skills and the directors of the UPRs falling under this hospital. Taking into account all these realities, and convinced of the need for a participatory approach in the development of any reorganization project, the doctors and teachers of the hospital denounced the hasty and non-consensual manner during the preparation of the project, and the restructuring proposals that resulted from it. The erroneous and unfounded analysis of the figures put forward by the director of the CHU led to a new division of services and an organization into poles bringing together incompatible specialties or activities, because they only took into consideration indicators such as the average length of stay, or the average occupancy rate, which are influenced by the delay in recovering the results of the check-ups, by the malfunctioning of the operating block, the lack of anesthesiologists, the lack of means…

Thus, and concerning the future of an entire hospital which has a double mission, that of care for the population and that of training future doctors, the teachers and doctors of the hospital reject the proposed project and request the creation of a representative commission of all professionals to debate the restructuring and make proposals within sufficient deadlines.

Doctors Rabat Children's Hospital

(about twenty signatories)