The nursing staff in the emergency room of the Orsay hospital (Essonne) denounce the “shameful” reception conditions for patients. The establishment has suffered a failure in its heating and hot water for more than a month.
On November 12, an emergency pipe burst at Orsay hospital, cutting off hot water and heating. Since then, the patients have no longer been able to take a shower, the nurses offer them water heated with kettles, for lack of towels they have cut out the operating drapes…
“With the thaw we suffer less from heating failureshe recognizes a nurse in the columns of the Parisian. But in the period in which temperatures dropped significantly, emergencies were freezing. We recorded 12 degrees. Also, the front door was broken for several weeks, which created drafts… Every week we are told that it will be fixed in a few days, and it has been over a month.”
The service also suffers from staff shortages linked to sickness absence caused in part by Covid, but mainly by the flu. “I’m ashamed. I didn’t do this job to mistreat people. But we welcome them in such conditions that it’s no longer possible”, he entrusts a nurse to the Parisian.
“We have little hope of finding solutions before January 2, explains Cédric Lussiez, director of the GHNE (Nord-Essonne hospital group, which brings together the hospitals of Longjumeau, Orsay and Juvisy-sur-Orge). (…). We managed to restore the heating only in some wings on the ground floor, such as the intensive care unit, bypassing other networks. Since these are old installations, it is very difficult for us to find the necessary parts. I have mobilized two engineers on the matter. There had already been this type of problem last year, but it doesn’t hold up because if we don’t close two months to change everything, which is impossible, we only make repairs that save us time but that don’t last”.
Management installed ten auxiliary radiators (plus six in stock) and distributed around thirty fleeces to staff.
[Avec leparisien.fr]
