unclog emergency rooms… yes, but how?

2023-04-18 14:43:00

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Emmanuel Macron’s promise seems difficult to keep, even if the subject is of major importance.

By Marc Payet

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In his speech on April 17, Emmanuel Macron made “a commitment to unclog emergency services by the end of 2024”.
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Published on 04/18/2023 at 4:43 p.m.

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« Je make a commitment to unclog the emergency services by the end of 2024.” During his speech on April 17, the President of the Republic made a strong commitment, both the images of patients who are hoarding hours on hospital stretchers is common. And shocking. And the current context, with the implementation of the Rist law, since April 3, which caps the rates of temporary doctors, makes things even worse. With fewer and fewer staff actually on duty, the emergency services are less equipped to deal with the influx of patients. With sometimes dramas, as was seen at the Grenoble University Hospital last Wednesday, with the death of a nonagenarian patient in the emergency room, following having waited three days for a hospital bed…

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