“Due to the numerous sick leaves requested (Friday December 30) by the health team, the regional hospital center of Metz-Thionville is modifying the operation of the hospital’s adult emergency room.“from Thionville,”until January 6th“, announces the CHR in a statement, which launched its white plan in the afternoon.
If the management of vital emergencies by the SMUR teams remains”operational“, the other patients are referred to other establishments.
According to union sources, 55 out of 59 nurses and carers have been placed on sick leave, often by decision of the emergency room doctors themselves.
“We come to this because, despite their efforts, the teams are exhausted, exhausted and unable to provide quality care, which is unbearable for them.“, Clarisse Mattel, a nurse and general secretary of the MICT-CGT union, told AFP. “This is a problem that goes beyond the situation of a hospital. The entire public hospital is in crisis: we can no longer properly treat patients.”
The Emergency Department, which has 12 reception boxes, registers more than 100 visits a day, and the CHR has no beds and staff to admit patients after their admission to the Emergency Department, the unions say.
“For the past few days, patients have been on stretchers in the corridor, when you’re lucky to have stretchers. One night we had none left, a lady lay down on the floor“, testifies a carer who asks to remain anonymous.
At the Sarreguemines hospital, another institution of the department, but not attached to the CHR, a strike movement has affected the emergency room since 23 December
Several caregivers report a 90-year-old patient who stayed”more than 90 hours“on a stretcher, and who has”been changed only once” in this period.
“It has become extremely complicated to ensure basic needs such as hygiene, meals and more in a context of promiscuity.“, says Patricia Schneider, representative of the Sud-Santé union at the CHR.
“I’ve been coming to the emergency room for six months with a knot in my stomach. Six months I’ve been afraid to open a door and find a dead man on a stretcher behind me“, confided a young nurse, arrested for”burnt“.
The emergency department of the CHR was headed by François Braun until his appointment as Minister of Health in July. “He has known the problems for some time“, points out a nurse.”I hope that we will soon be able to discuss the evolution of the situation with him.“.
The departure of the director general of the CHR of Metz-Thionville, Marie-Odile Saillard, had long been announced for this Saturday 31 December. Her successor has not yet been named.
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At the Sarreguemines hospital, another institution of the department but not attached to the CHR, a strike movement has affected the emergency room since 23 December. The movement shouldharden“in the coming days, a union source told AFP.
With the AFP
