In the department of Sarthe, of which the city of Le Mans is the capital, the closures of emergency services are linked. Iryna / stock.adobe.com
The practitioners denounce in a letter addressed to the authorities “an alarming degradation” of their services, leading to a “real mistreatment”.
Their words cast a harsh light on the setbacks of the public hospital. “Alarming deterioration», «unbearable pressure», «very fast patient turnover», «poor teams», «exhausted nurses“… More than 50 doctors practicing at Le Mans hospital sent an alarming letter to the Minister of Health on Thursday. Among the signatories is the name of the vice-president of the establishment’s medical commission.
Practitioners were not content to put their dismay on paper, they also announced that they were resigning administratively. A rare measure which disengages them from all their responsibilities, in particular hierarchical, although they continue to treat the sick. By exerting this pressure, health professionals want to push the authorities to recruit “qualified personnel, necessary for the rapid reopening of surgical beds».
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Anger of the medical profession
In the department of Sarthe, of which the city of Le Mans is the capital, the closures of emergency services are linked. Result, denounce the doctors of the main hospital of the department, “All the services“undergo”a power-up», et «especially those of surgery“. The influx of patients has forced the hospital to reorganize: 60 conventional surgery beds have been closed out of the 150 in the establishment, and 110 surgeries have been hastily deprogrammed since the beginning of the year.
The personnel of the Le Mans hospital work “under unbearable pressure to welcome patients and provide them with the appropriate care with a very rapid turnover of patients and pathologies for which our nurses are not always trained“. The same causes had produced, three years ago, exactly the same effects. About twenty chief doctors of the Le Mans hospital announced on February 14, 2020 their administrative resignation.
The letter is part of a news of strong tensions between doctors and the administration. Beyond the public hospital crisis, liberal doctors refused a proposal from Medicare on the amount of their benefits. Since then, a number of them have been threatening to come out of agreement, that is to say, to no longer be affiliated with the Sécu. A choice of an unprecedented radicalism which testifies to the anger of the medical profession.