2023-08-15 17:24:07
In emergencies, “the situation is more serious than last summer” in France, said Tuesday Marc Noizet, president of Samu-Urgences de France on Europe 1, stressing that all departments are affected, but also tourist areas in full season.
“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 have been obliged to set up on the car park in front of the hospital, a structure where doctors do minor traumatology to alleviate emergencies” or even Saint-Tropez (Var) “which almost closed its emergency department”.
Closed Smurs
“More pernicious”, according to him, “we close Smur, the part of the hospital which moves on the public road 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 Smur des Hauts-de-Seine, Gilles Jourdain, also “launched the alert” in The Parisian Tuesday afternoon, claiming in particular that his team had to transfer a two-month-old infant on Sunday to Rouen, for lack of beds in pediatric intensive care in Île-de-France. “His bronchiolitis was getting worse, the little boy needed to be admitted to intensive care. The teams went three times around the places available in the five departments in Île-de-France with the necessary skills for this type of care. Nothing, zero bed,” he said.
“All the reinforcements that we were able to mobilize have been”
For Dr Jourdain, “the tensions in nursing staff are so strong that the degraded situation of winter persists and is felt again in summer. The authorities seem incapable of providing 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 expounded. “There is a real problem, the minister recognizes it, now things should move forward,” said Marc Noizet.
Visiting the Toulouse Samu on Monday, the Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, declared that “some” of the demands of the striking ARMs were “legitimate” and that he intended to “work on it in the very next few weeks”.
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