The head of traumatological emergencies at the South Hospital of Grenoble (Isère) Jean-Jacques Banihachémi spoke on Monday February 20, 2023 and discussed the situation “catastrophic” in which the establishment is located. Caregivers have to deal with an explosion in the number of ski accidents. This is due to the increase in the number of holidaymakers, he explained to France Blue Iserebut not only.
snow and injuries
If more skiers end up in hospital, it is also because when they fall, they have a higher risk of injury. In question, the climatic conditions which make the quality of the snow changing during the same day. The consequences of this resurgence of hospitalizations of patients following accidents were not long in being felt on the organization of the South Hospital and its staff.
To take care of the approximately 80 or 100 people arriving each day in traumatological emergencies, the number of caregivers is decreasing. Resignations have multiplied, with a key drop in the number of operating theaters, said Jean-Jacques Banihachémi. “We are having a lot of trouble at the moment although we are prepared”he commented.
Other establishments to the rescue
Emergency personnel remain in sufficient numbers. “But the problem is the reception of patients and the fact of being able to hospitalize them and especially to operate on them afterwards”, says the doctor. This is why the hospital “struggling to meet rising demand”, regretted the emergency manager. To provide care, the service therefore relies on transfers to other establishments, in particular local private clinics.
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