In the emergency room of Orleans hospital, “the disaster is there” – Liberation

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–While almost all the paramedics in the hospital department are on sick leave, doctors are threatening to go on strike from this Friday if nothing is done to avoid overcrowding.–

Forerunner of the “death of the public hospital”, reason for the minute of silence observed every Friday by caregivers all over France? The current crisis at the regional hospital center of Orléans (Loiret) gives at the very least a glimpse of the cracking which awaits the whole of the French health system. Since the end of March, almost all of the hundred nurses and nursing assistants working in adult emergencies have been on sick leave for asthenia, burnout, or acute stress. Never seen.

Unable to maintain the activity of the service despite the triggering of the white plan, the hospital restricted access to emergencies to patients in vital danger, directed by the 15. In a department cataloged as a “medical desert” where emergencies hospitals are often the only recourse of the population, such a situation is critical. It threatens to become dramatic. This is what the emergency doctors have warned: unless they obtain commitments to improve the working conditions of the service, they will be on hard strike from Friday at 9 a.m. “If the management wants to requisition us, they will have to do it in the rules, namely that they give us our summons in person, and not in our locker or at our s…

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