The meeting had already been scheduled for several months by the Bretagne majeure association, which looks at various issues surrounding public services in the region: a forum on health issues was scheduled in Carhaix (Finistère), including Access to hospital emergency rooms has been restricted since summer 2023Saturday, October 12, 2024. But the coincidence of the calendar will make it a new highlight for advocates of reopening emergency rooms 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Because on October 16, the monitoring committee for the crisis exit protocol – signed a year earlier, in 2023 – must meet at the prefecture.
“Coming together on October 12 will allow us to influence the decisions that will be taken a few days later.”hopes Christian Troadec, the regionalist mayor of Carhaix.
For a debate
Via said protocol, the State had notably committed itself through the voice of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) to reestablish an operation without regulation. But since then, on this point, nothing has changed. The 80,000 inhabitants of the Pays Centre Ouest Bretagne, which includes five communities of communes, must call 15 to be directed if they cannot go to the emergency room.
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It is because of the lack of progress that the morning of October 12 will take place in two parts. The first, starting at 8:30 a.m., will be devoted to the forum itself, at the Karaez Park complex; the second, starting at 11:30 a.m., will be a gathering in front of the hospital to, once again, “recall the commitment to maintaining and resuming emergencies” in its initial operation, before summer 2023.
But beyond the protest, the organizers want to defend the “time for solutions”. “We have a list of questions that we will prioritize with the speakersexplains Gwenaël Henry, president of Bretagne Majeure. And ap “The audience will be invited to ask questions.” And to put forward proposals.
A mayoral decree to come
“The meeting on the 12th is really timely, because there are lots of initiatives from elected officials,” underlines Gaël Roblin, municipal councilor of the minority in Guingamp. He himself advocates the call for Cuban doctors as reinforcements. He is at the origin of 56 orders taken by mayors in Côtes-d’Armor claiming from the State “to meet its health obligations”. Christian Troadec intends to follow the example: “I will take the decision in the next few days”he announces.
More broadly, everyone wants local voices and proposals to be heard by state services and is calling on all hospital defence committees in Brittany (and even beyond) to take part in the meeting. “We realized that we were a bit like spectators of each otherobserves Matthieu Guillemot, spokesperson for the vigilance committee of the Carhaix hospital. I think this is really the moment to find solutions. I believe in the snowball effect of this meeting.”
