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Residents wait in front of Mamoudzou Hospital in Mayotte on December 8, 2023.
Thierry Pelourdeau, President of the Medical Council of the Mayotte Hospital Center (CHM), wants to put it in the right words: “Emergency, critical situation. » Don’t overdo it or downplay the situation. ‘It’s very difficult and stressful for doctors’he added. Mayotte has endured nearly two years of misery due to a failure to attract doctors, unwillingness to do so in a country marred by violence between rival gangs, water crises, cholera epidemics and internal conflicts between doctors and their leadership. The department settled and the emergency in Mayotte suffered.. “In addition to this, the needs of the Olympic Games have been added.””, Dr. Peludo emphasized.
On June 10, about 50 CHM doctors demonstrated in Mamuzu against an empty hospital. “Crashed”want to “Alert Management, Population, Ministry of Health”. The emergency center has 37 theoretical staff and currently 3 full-time staff are responsible for managing reception, patient boxes, short-stay wards, discharge (emergency treatment of shock states). “The doctors there did their best to avoid disaster and worked long hours”Christophe Laplace, pediatric surgeon and interim co-manager of the emergency department, assures us.
To make up for the shortage of emergency physicians and specialists (intensivists, pediatricians) “Descendants” Regularly in service. General practitioners from CHM were also invited. “We ended up in what I would call a crazy situation, with extreme situations related to recruitment issues and a lack of emergency physicians.”Adrien Cussac, department chief at Kahani Reference Medical Center, describes the center as an institution that relies on CHM. That’s what everyone calls it in Mayotte “pharmacy”.
‘Global abuse’
Doctors cited a pile-up in Kobani in early May that killed one motorist and injured seven others. “There are no SMUR doctors involved in this intervention.” Dr. Cusack explained. Went with a GP and a nurse from SMUR, luckily the nurse was very experienced. » He is a general practitioner and was assigned by management to be on call in the emergency room for 12 hours. “I’m not here to complain.Dr. Cusack insisted. My good intentions cannot replace four years of professional training in emergency medicine. I found myself working as an intern with a foreign doctor, facing fifty patients being treated. »
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