90 hours of waiting before being hospitalized. 20 hours before seeing a doctor. 100 patients in the corridor and examination rooms. The emergency room of the Bel-Air hospital in Thionville has reached an unprecedented level of saturation. And the staff collapses. The vast majority of nurses and health workers are on sick leave for a week. Stops prescribed by the service doctors who see them exhausted, guard after guard. “We can’t take it anymore,” the Bel-Air paramedics confess. The consequence is direct: Thionville emergencies are only open “to vital emergencies” since Friday.
tears and shame
The tension has risen to a crescendo. But for a month it does not go down. The requested meeting with the unions and the management of CHR Metz-Thionville resolved nothing. Burnout is both moral and…