In mid-December 2020, the management of GHRMSA (Regional hospital group of Mulhouse Sud Alsace), of which the Altkirch hospital is now part, signed with the inter-union a protocol for the end of the strike of the emergency personnel of the Émile-Muller hospital in Mulhouse for the 1is January 2021. The strike movement has been going on since the end of April 2019, due to degraded working conditions and a glaring lack of emergency doctors.
As part of this protocol, we learned about the maintenance of the Altkirch emergency department beyond 2020, but without further details. Finally, the renewal of the authorization of the emergency medicine structure at the Altkirch site was granted by decision of the Regional Health Agency on December 22, 2020, for a period of 3 years from 1is July 2021 without interruption of service.
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The emergency department (SU) of Saint-Morand hospital had been in the hot seat for several years and threatened with closure several times. It was considered “very fragile” from the summer of 2019 because it only relied on temporary doctors and had to temporarily close several times during the fall of that year. The ARS had extended its operating authorization until December 31, 2020 and indicated at the start of 2020 that it wanted to “consolidate the GHRMSA emergency medical team, a team intended to become a regional team shared between the different sites. “
In October 2019, the GHRMSA recruited a new head of the emergency department in the person of Marc Noizet as well as several emergency doctors. A few weeks later, the latter faced the violent Covid-19 crisis, which undoubtedly represented a turning point in the way of looking at things …
Note that the Altkirch hospital also continues to be in the loop to treat people with the new coronavirus. The 15-bed Covid unit currently accommodates 15 patients.
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