In emergencies, “the situation is more serious than last summer” in France, said Tuesday Marc Noizet, president of Samu-Urgences de France. He points out that all departments are affected, but also tourist areas in high season.
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” The situation is more serious than last summer because it now affects all departments of France, large services and small services. Last summer, we had red zones “, declared on Europe 1 Marc Noizet, president of Samu-Emergencies of France and head of the emergency service of the hospital group of the region of Mulhouse and South-Alsace. For him, “ the novelty is that extremely touristic areas (…) are today in very, very precarious “, citing Les Sables-d’Olonne – in Vendée – or Arcachon – in 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 – in the Var – « who almost closed his emergency department “.
” more pernicious “, according to him, ” we close mobile emergency and resuscitation structures (Smur), the part of the hospital that travels on public roads 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 Smur are closed, but it affects the vital emergency “, he added.
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In the Paris region, saturated pediatric emergencies
Head of the Hauts-de-Seine Smur, Gilles Jourdain, also “ issued the alert ” In The Parisian on Tuesday August 15, claiming in particular that his team had to transfer a two-month-old infant on Sunday to Rouen, for lack of pediatric intensive care beds 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.
Azzeddine Ayachi is coordinator of the federation of pediatric emergency services in the Paris region, for him, the resuscitation services make a lot of effort to be able to open the beds, to be able to accept patients, young patients, but sometimes it’s saturated and it’s not possible: “ Usually, infants are not transferred in the middle of summer for this type of situation. At least, it’s not the period of bronchiolitis. We are in the summer period, there is less activity too. Hopefully things can stay that way. In any case, the services are under tension, that is a constant. It should be noted that the previous bronchiolitis season was extremely harsh, with an epidemic that was early and significant. We would not like to live the same scenario. We can have a little hope, because today, there is a treatment which is proposed and which will be available from the start of the school year to prevent this disease. This could help us reduce the impact of this disease in the young population and avoid oversaturation of beds. »
For Dr. Gilles Jourdain, “ the tensions in nursing staff are so strong that the degraded situation of the winter persists and is felt again in the summer. The authorities seem unable to provide a solution “.
Claims of medical regulation assistants still unanswered
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 has done a lot of harm, even if it was a necessary evil “said the president of Samu-Urgences de France, Marc Noizet. As for the medical regulation assistants (ARM), the first to pick up the calls to the Samu and on strike in 69 of the 100 departmental Centers 15, “ they are poorly paid, have problems with career advancement and the adequacy of their number to the flow “, he exposed. ” 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 ” a part » of the demands of the striking ARMs were « legitimate » and that he counted « work on it in the next few weeks “.
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(and with AFP)