Crisis in the hospital sector: “Patients are made to wait at home with antibiotics”

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In a column published by the newspaper The world, more than a thousand caregivers, nurses, midwives and hospital doctors are sounding the alarm about the state of emergencies in hospitals in France. Forced to sort patients, they denounce the “untenable ethical dilemmas” they face due to lack of beds and staff. The testimony of one of the signatories, Agnès Hartemann, head of the diabetology department at La Pitié Salpêtrière in Paris and member of the Inter-Hôpitaux collective.

A slogan “Emergency overdue” on the blouse of a member of a Bordeaux hospital during a demonstration, June 7, 2022.

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