2023-09-30 17:05:02
Since this summer, the emergency department has been operating with regulation in the evening and at night, between 6:30 p.m. and 8 a.m. A situation denounced by residents and elected officials, who demonstrated this Saturday in front of the Finistère prefecture.
The call was launched by the vigilance committee of Carhaix hospital. Between 750, according to the prefecture, and a thousand people, according to the organizers, demonstrated this Saturday in front of the Finistère prefecture, in Quimper, to demand the reopening of the Carhaix emergency room at night.
The emergency rooms only partially reopened at the start of the school year, and remain closed in the evening and at night, while the Brest University Hospital is an hour’s drive away. The emergency rooms at Carhaix hospital have been operating in a manner regulated by the Samu from 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 a.m. every day since the beginning of July.
The “disappointed” elected officials
Sixteen elected officials, including the mayor of Carhaix Christian Troadec (DVG), were received by the prefect of Finistère, Alain Espinasse. These elected officials wanted to “recall the commitment that the State had made in August to ensure that we return to a normal system,” he told AFP.
“We are very disappointed”, for lack of a date for a return to normal, indicated Christian Troadec. Referring to the mobilizations of 2008, the councilor assured “that if we have to do it once more, we will do it once more”. At the time, as recalled France 3 Brittany, elected officials, residents and employees had mobilized for several months once morest the closure of the surgical and maternity services at Carhaix hospital. They finally won their case.
The death of a baby pointed out
“We do not consider this situation to be normal,” assured prefect Alain Espinasse during a press briefing. He explained that the regulation of emergencies in Carhaix at night is explained by the lack of an emergency doctor. “We are working to find a doctor,” he continued, in order to return to “a return to normal as quickly as possible”, but without being able to commit to a specific date.
This Saturday’s rally took place peacefully, before the situation became tense at midday, when demonstrators attempted to cross the police cordon. The police used tear gas.
A previous meeting, on September 14, at the National Health Agency (ARS), resulted in a blockade of the agency’s premises by demonstrators. The director of the ARS as well as that of the Brest-Carhaix University Hospital were notably detained for several hours.
Another tragedy recently ignited the powder: the death of a 6-month-old baby, during the night from Wednesday to Thursday in Carhaix. Suffering from a respiratory problem, the infant might not be treated quickly enough by emergency services.
If the death of the baby raises questions for the Defense and Vigilance Committee of the Carhaix hospital, the management of the Brest University Hospital affirmed that “the death is not linked to the regulation of emergencies”.
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