At the Strasbourg hospital the blue of white coats

This CHSCT had been convened after a right of alert filed the day before by the syndicate for “endangering health workers and patients for lack of means”, while the Strasbourg emergencies were “at 147%” of their capacity, according to the labor unions.

A previous right of alert was exercised at the end of August by FO (who is not a member of the syndicate), shortly before the death in the emergency room of an octogenarian, who died after a long wait on a stretcher. His relatives will take legal action.

The family members of another patient had already filed a complaint, who died in March in the same emergency room, also after a long wait.

Hospital staff later reported the lack of beds and the overcrowding of the emergency room.

The Hus interunion also signals a “destruction of the care offer”, with “200 beds closed daily” in the Strasbourg hospital and “250 care places” vacant. They left management for 48 hours to make proposals, otherwise they will take legal action, as other hospital unions in Laval or Bayonne have recently done.

For Vincent Poindron, a medical member of the Interhospital Collective, the “economically catastrophic” situation of the HUS is the result of a “general health policy that has been contested for several years”. According to him, we must be careful not to throw “opprobrium” on managers in general, but “question” and “criticize” the “abusive systems”, even if “the individual facts are reprehensible”.

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The hospital “takes psychosocial risks very seriously,” assures Professor Emmanuel Andrès, president of the Establishment Medical Commission (CME).

However, as president of the CME, “I have not been warned (…) of gestures, of particular situations of tension” in the emergency room, says the head of the internal medicine center, who says “falling from the clouds as per the accusations of harassment and insults which, if true, “are not acceptable”.

“If things are proven”, “measures” will be taken, he warns, annoyed “by the current exploitation of a number of events still surrounding emergencies”.

La situation des hôpitaux “is difficult (…) on sort de deux ans de Covid, il ya une pénurie de soignants” et “de la fatigue”, reconnaît le Pr Andrès, rappelant que les urgences strasbourgeoises sont restées ouvertes tout l ‘ summer.

And to insist: “the patients are well cared for and the CHU continues to do its job at its best”.

*: names have been changed

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