We suffered a lot. You cannot survive with such salary. What can you do with 2000 francs per month? Also, we get paid with a delay of two or three months.
If we get sick and we need to go to the hospital, there is no medicine for us. And if we have to go and buy them in the drugstore, it’s all on us, from our pocket!
Army get the drugs, but then they sell it away. When you get sick, they sometimes give you some medicines but then they cut the salary. Instead of giving you 70 thousand, for instance, they give you 50. What a pain...