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Nicolas Good
Published on August 16, 2024 at 3:39 p.m. See my news Follow Actu Nantes
The unions of the Nantes University Hospital and the hospital management are at loggerheads.
Early August 2024, Force Ouvrière claimed that four deaths of patients waiting in emergency queues had occurred within three weeks.
In a press release sent this Friday, August 16, The management wishes to “formally and categorically deny this erroneous information.”
A death confirmed on August 3
In it, the hospital explains thata death did indeed occur on August 3rdA 72-year-old woman who presented with a deterioration in her general condition on August 2 and was found dead the following morning for reasons still unknown.
An initial diagnosis had been made and did not require her to be made a priority, explains Professor Eric Batard, head of the emergency department. An assessment of the causes of this death is currently being carried out by the ARS (Regional Health Agency) of Pays de la Loire in order to take subsequent measures.
“The medical and care team was very affected by the conditions of this unexplained death,” says Eric Batard, who in turn refutes this figure of four deaths in three weeks in the waiting line.
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A deadline reduced to 7 a.m. today
As for what is Estimated transit times of 9 hours between mid-July and mid-August, he explains that, although it is high, this level “is comparable to other university hospitals”.
“In times of tension, patients can stay more than 24 hours in the emergency room due to the lack of a hospital bed available in all the hospitals and clinics in the region,” adds the head of the emergency room. But “no one stays 50 or 70 hours in the emergency room before being treated as has been written,” he denies.
According to the hospital, the crossing time has since been reduced to 7 a.m., due to a quieter activity over the past week. He also points out that the adult emergency department receives 90,000 people each year.
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