The Minister of Health François Braun is expected firmly in Langon, Captieux and Bordeaux this Monday, April 17. By caregivers, elected officials and even by hospital unions. Everyone is waiting for strong announcements to rehabilitate the old buildings of the Langon-La Réole hospital. An envelope of several tens of millions of euros may not be enough to extinguish the smoldering fire at the Sud-Gironde Hospital Center.
In Langon, as everywhere in France, we…
The Minister of Health François Braun is expected firmly in Langon, Captieux and Bordeaux this Monday, April 17. By caregivers, elected officials and even by hospital unions. Everyone is waiting for strong announcements to rehabilitate the old buildings of the Langon-La Réole hospital. An envelope of several tens of millions of euros may not be enough to extinguish the smoldering fire at the Sud-Gironde Hospital Center.
In Langon, as everywhere in France, we need arms and white coats. The double temporary closure of emergencies in early April is a reminder of the fragility of the public health system. In the South-Gironde, elected officials are even calling for the requisition of doctors to complete the workforce. A radical solution to the still unclear terms of application. Will it have to come to this?
Before the arrival of the Minister of Health, faced with rumors of the closure of several hospital sites in New Aquitaine, after the start of the application of the Rist law, “Sud Ouest” questioned the director general of the Regional Agency for Health (ARS) of New Aquitaine, Benoît Elleboode. The latter ensures that to date, no long-term closure is envisaged throughout the region.
Well almost: “Apart from the Sarlat maternity hospital in the Dordogne which should close because it only works thanks to 100% temporary workers, there is no risk of closure to date, he said. declared. We live a spring like a summer. It’s a way of explaining a situation of tension, such as we know in summer in our region. Hospital workers go on vacation, and the population increases due to school holidays. »
The effects of the Rist law
Since the beginning of April, the Rist law has capped the remuneration of temporary doctors. What scare them away? Many health establishments in rural areas are standing up thanks to the presence of temporary caregivers who fill in the gaps in the schedules of hospital establishments. Hence these risks of closure.
“For Sarlat, to date we have not succeeded in maintaining an opening, but the situation is temporary, we are not going to close the maternity ward definitively, continues Benoît Elleboode. However, we see some temporary workers resisting the law and going on strike, because they want to continue to receive the overpayments to which they were accustomed. To date, these “strikers” are between 2 and 3% in the region. »
“Practitioners will return”
Like Langon, several emergency services temporarily close on certain days, at certain times of the day, the pace is quite chaotic. Patients are regulated by the Samu and Center 15 and the most urgent cases are sent to major hospitals. A degraded situation to say the least.
“It will not last, reassures the director general of the ARS of Bordeaux. Hospital practitioners will come back, they are on the job market, they are not going to change jobs. If all the temporary workers had gone on strike, then we would have had to close eight emergency services, small maternity wards. They are a handful to resist. And we will hold on, ”insists the director of the ARS.
