2023-08-15 16:18:00
In emergencies, “the situation is more serious than last summer” in France, said Tuesday Marc Noizet, president of Samu-Urgences de France, stressing that all departments are affected but also tourist areas in high season.
“The situation is more serious than last summer because it now affects all the 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 department of the hospital group in the Mulhouse and Sud-Alsace region.
For Marc Noizet, “the novelty is that extremely touristic areas (…) are today in very, very great precariousness”, 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 even Saint-Tropez (Var) “which almost closed its emergency department”.
“More pernicious”, according to him, “we close Smur, the part of the hospital which moves 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 the vital emergency,” he added.
Head of Smur des Hauts-de-Seine, Gilles Jourdain, also “launched the alert” in Le Parisien on Tuesday afternoon, stating in particular that his team had to transfer a two-month-old infant to Rouen on Sunday, for lack of beds in pediatric resuscitation 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 reappears 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 were”, and “the regulation of the remuneration of temporary workers did 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 calls to the Samu and on strike in 69 of the 100 departmental “centres 15”, “they are poorly paid, have problems with career advancement and the adequacy of their numbers to the stream,” he said.
“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 “part” of the demands of the striking ARMs were “legitimate” and that he intended “to work on it in the very next few weeks”.
15/08/2023 16:16:37 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
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