2023-12-27 09:11:00
“Nothing has changed” in emergency services, which are “currently saturated, like all winters”said Marc Noizet, president of the Samu-Ergences de France union, on Wednesday, observing a “form of resignation of healthcare workers”.
“The Strasbourg University Hospital was forced to deploy a health unit in front of its emergency rooms, to avoid congestion and queues from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. for ambulances in front of its department”he said at the microphone of France Inter, while the white plan was activated in Alsace in mid-December, allowing hospital directors to deprogram non-urgent operations or to reorganize staff schedules.
“In Finistère, three emergency services went on strike at the beginning of December”, “in Bordeaux, we no longer have the capacity to pick up at center 15” et “in the Var, one in two emergency services now close at night”further described the head of the Mulhouse emergency department.
“This year, once once more, we have the problem of the conjunction of several epidemics”, with in particular “the flu on the rise in the eastern part of France” et “a resurgence of Covid”he explained.
“Every day in emergency departments, there are lines of patients waiting for a hospital bed to become available”he added.
This situation is also explained by cases which would fall under community medicine, also in “crisis”underlined for his part Frédéric Valletoux, Horizons deputy (presidential majority) of Seine-et-Marne, also on France Inter.
“Lack of visibility”
Faced with tensions in terms of recruitment at the public hospital, the fixed compensation for work on Sundays and public holidays and night work for some hospital staff will be increased on January 1, in accordance with the government’s commitments.
Asked regarding the parade of five ministers who have already succeeded each other at the head of the Ministry of Health under the presidency of Emmanuel Macron since 2017, Marc Noizet deplored “a lack of visibility” for the health system.
“We need real measures that support the future and we are waiting for them,” he said, a week following the resignation of Aurélien Rousseau, due to disagreement over the immigration law and the interim appointment of Agnès Firmin Le Bodo.
“As long as we don’t have long-term government action, it will be complicated”added Mr. Valletoux, who introduced a bill aimed at improving access to care in the territories, adopted in Parliament on December 18.
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