The announcement was made last Wednesday to caregivers at the Châteauroux-Le Blanc hospital: 7 digestive surgery beds and 7 others in the orthopedic surgery department will be closed temporarily. For Karine Jouhanneau, CGT secretary of the hospital center, this situation is unacceptable when the country’s hospitals have just gone into “crisis organization” to prevent a worsening of the health situation. “We are closing beds to recover staff, because we have a big shortage of staff” specifies the trade unionist. “We are asked to go into” crisis organization, but with what means? It’s been a year since this health crisis began, at some point it will be necessary for the Ministry of Health to wake up and allocate human resources to hospitals and that we open permanent resuscitation beds. “
With the temporary closure of these 14 surgical beds, Karine Jouhanneau also deplores the deprogramming of non-emergency interventions and underlines that “only two nurses are recovered; that’s not going to save the hospital!”
“No, we have not deprogrammed interventions” assures Evelyne Poupet, director of the hospital of Châteauroux-Le Blanc
Contacted by France Bleu Berry, Evelyne Poupet, the director of the Châteauroux-Le Blanc hospital confirms these temporary closures of digestive and orthopedic surgery beds: “More than closures, I prefer to talk about a reorganization on the fly. We have not deprogrammed interventions in these two activities. It simply means that temporarily, we will not admit new patients. . It’s an internal reorganization that will allow professionals to rest while the holidays have just started. When we can reduce the capacity, we do it, we adjust as we go. “
Evelyne Poupet also confirms that these temporary bed closures will also make it possible to rebalance human resources and relieve a little of the highly requested services: “Despite everything, we continue to call on temporary staff, which is difficult to find”, specifies the director of the Castelroussin establishment.
Even if they are temporary, these bed closures demonstrate in any case, after almost a year of health crisis, that the situation is very tense on the issue of human resources, while many caregivers no longer hide their weariness and exasperation at working in increasingly difficult conditions.
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