Several dozen people, local elected officials, hospital staff and ordinary inhabitants, gathered on Friday evening in front of the emergency room of the Draguignan hospital (Var) to denounce the closure of this service at night, from 8:30 p.m. to 8:30 a.m. The management of the establishment took this radical decision at the end of October following “from a situation of exhaustion“From the emergency team who no longer allows him”to continue to carry out its mission under conditions compatible with the requirements of quality and safety of care“, She explained in a statement. This service, which welcomed between 100 and 150 people before it closed at night, is currently running with 6 doctors while around 20 would be needed. According to management, this situation stems from the difficulty of recruiting practitioners “due to particularly unfavorable medical demographics».
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«It is indeed a lack of doctors that brings us to this closure, and there is not much we can say about this, because it would endanger everyone, both the staff and the population.“, Remarks Frédéric Duthé, CGT manager at the hospital center, who shows his determination to”fight to keep this service»And its opening 24 hours a day with the inter-union also formed by FO and Sud. “We have been working 100 hours a week for at least eighteen months», Explains Pierre-Emmanuel Lebas, emergency doctor. “Already, when there were temporary workers, we were at the cleat, but now that there are no more, it is a cleat that is outdated because we cannot do more, physically and even legally.», Continues the practitioner. According to him, the new generations of doctors want to work well “48 hours, but no more».
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Faced with this situation, the population of Dracénie, a basin of 100,000 inhabitants located around Draguignan, is today constrained – apart from vital, obstetric, psychiatric emergencies and the reception of women and children victims of violence – , to travel many kilometers at night to reach the emergency services of Fréjus, Toulon or Brignoles. Coming to accompany his wife who has dislocated her shoulder, Jean-Luc admits his incomprehension in the face of this decision. “It’s not normal, an emergency service, as its name suggests, is for emergencies, and emergencies do not stop at half past eight.Evening, notes this retiree.
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