“The situation is more serious than last summer because it now affects all departments of France, large services and small services. Last summer, we had red zones”declared on Europe 1 the one who is also head of the emergency service of the hospital group in the region of Mulhouse and South-Alsace.
For Marc Noizet, “The novelty is that extremely touristic areas (…) are today in very, very precarious conditions”, citing Les Sables-d’Olonne (Vendée) or Arcachon (Gironde) “where they were forced to set up a structure in the parking lot in front of the hospital where doctors do minor traumatology to alleviate emergencies” or Saint-Tropez (Var) “who almost closed his emergency department”.
“More Pernicious”according to him, “we close Smur, the part of the hospital that travels on the public highway or to your home when there is a serious incident”, “sometimes for a night or a weekend”.
“For example, around Angers, this extended weekend with the August 15 bridge, seven Smurs are closed, but it affects vital emergencies”he added.
Head of the Hauts-de-Seine Smur, Gilles Jourdain, has also “issued the alert” In The Parisian Tuesday followingnoon, claiming in particular that his team had to transfer a two-month-old infant on Sunday to Rouen, for lack of pediatric intensive care beds in Île-de-France.
“His bronchiolitis was getting worse, the little boy needed to be admitted to intensive care. The teams went around the available places three times in the five services in Île-de-France with the necessary skills for this type of care. . nothing, zero bed”he said.
For Dr Jourdain, “The tensions in nursing staff are so strong that the degraded situation of winter persists and is felt once more in the summer. The authorities seem unable to provide a solution”.
In the emergency room, as elsewhere in the hospital, “all the reinforcements that we were able to mobilize have been”et “the regulation of the remuneration of temporary workers has done a lot of harm, even if it was a necessary evil”said the president of Samu-Urgences de France on the radio.
As for the medical regulation assistants (ARM), the first to pick up the calls to the Samu and on strike in 69 of the 100 “centres 15” departmental, “they are badly paid, have problems with career advancement and the adequacy of their number to the flow”he explained.
“There is a real problem, the minister recognizes it, now things should move forward”launched Marc Noizet.
Visiting the Toulouse Samu on Monday, the Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, declared that“a part” of the demands of the striking ARMs were “legitimate” and that he counted “work on it in the next few weeks”.
