For a number of weeks now, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Regional Well being Company has carried out a number of concrete actions to assist metropolis and hospital professionals, and anticipate the dangers linked to the vacationer season:
- mobilization of metropolis medical doctors to ensure the permanence of care through the summer season, permitting for instance reinforcements in on-call medical facilities, typically positioned close to a hospital or an emergency service in an effort to relieve congestion within the latter for non-urgent care.
- adaptation of medical helicopter seashores (Héli-SMUR) so as to have the ability to meet elevated wants through the summer season and liberate medical time for emergency companies.
- implementation of a forecast planning device which lists the emergency companies, SMUR strains and SAMU within the area, by professionals. This device supplies a worldwide imaginative and prescient of the dates most in danger and makes it doable to forestall and anticipate any concomitant disruptions in care provision.
In numbers
The Paca area has 49 emergency reception companies (SAU). In 2023, greater than 1.8 million sufferers might be handled in one in every of these companies (i.e. round 4,800 sufferers/day), due to the mobilization of all these concerned in pressing medical help. (SAMU, SMUR, SAU, SDIS, personal medical transporters and well being institutions).
A communication marketing campaign to relay
As in every single place in France, emergency companies are going through very intense exercise resulting in excessive stress on medical and nursing employees.
That is why going to the emergency room for a non-urgent common drugs session can influence the standard of look following sufferers who want it most. Emergencies are subsequently reserved for probably the most severe circumstances.
To keep away from systematic recourse to emergencies and assist the inhabitants, native or vacationer, who will go to our area to take part in a number of sporting occasions (JOP 2024 and Tour de France) to acquire a medical session with a physician this summer season, the ARS Paca declines this 12 months, with the assist metropolis and hospital well being professionals, the nationwide communication marketing campaign.
The messages
This summer season, if I want a physician:
