It is through a letter addressed to the Minister of Health François Braun, to the director of the Regional Health Agency and to the Sarthe and regional elected officials that the surgeons of the Center Hospitalier du Mans expressed their exhaustion, their bowl.
Local emergencies closed: 60 surgery beds requisitioned
Last year, several emergency services in Sarthe and Mayenne closed their doors, thus becoming part of the recommendations of the report on the territorialization of emergency activities dated 2015.
As a result, many patients from these departments end up at the Le Mans hospital center for various emergencies. Nevertheless, these patients have to be welcomed somewhere and it is the surgery department of the Hospital of Le Mans that toasts. The daily Ouest-France indicates that “60 conventional surgery beds (out of 150) would thus have been closed to accommodate these patients, for lack of paramedical personnel to open medicine beds.” Moreover, nurses dedicated to emergencies are themselves overwhelmed by the influx of patients requiring care for which the staff is not necessarily trained.
Operations postponed due to lack of space
According to doctors at the Center Hospitalier du Mans, since January 9, “these are more than 110 interventions that had to be deprogrammed overnight for lack of space”.
Faced with a situation feared a few years ago and which is now coming to light, the surgeons and anesthesiologists interviewed by Ouest-France indicate that it is no longer possible “to take care of our patients under correct and humanly bearable.”
This Thursday, March 2, they then made the collective decision to resign from their administrative functions and responsibilities in a letter addressed to the Minister of Health, to the director of the ARS of Pays de la Loire as well as to the eight Sarthe parliamentarians, to the president of the regional council, to the president of the departmental council and to the mayor of Le Mans:
“We, surgeons and anesthetists of the Le Mans Hospital Center, can no longer guarantee the mission that a public hospital must fulfill: a public service mission.”
However, these public service professionals assure that they will continue to provide their medical service to their patients.
