It will not yet be 7:30 p.m. this Wednesday, and for them, access to the hospital will not be regulated. Since 1is March , only one emergency doctor works at night on the Graylois site, where patients must therefore call (the 15th) to be sure of being taken care of there. An operation, sold as being concerted or abrupt, according to opposite versions, which has been debated since this winter.
The round table, which the mayor of Gray obtained two weeks ago, following this open crisis in the emergency department which reverberated in the street, will sit down with people. In the list of guests, only polite and well-educated women and men, who promise speckled foil exchanges. Anyway, at first.
On one side of the table, to simplify, we could, in fact, get tired of not seeing a change of direction. Caregivers and local elected officials expect it from the management of the Haute-Saône Hospital Group (GH70). This will be mainly embodied by Alexandrine Kientzy-Laluc, the director, but also Pierre Gorcy, the chairman of the Supervisory Board. Alongside them will be Dr. Litzler, head of the GH70 emergency department. The latter will be confronted with his emergency counterparts from Gray and there is a first potential hot spot there. Graylois professionals reproaching a lack of consultation and a bet on the fait accompli when we deplore, in Vesoul, the absence of response to three meeting proposals, since this winter.
The mobility of emergency physicians at the center of the discussions
Patron of health, in Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Jean-Jacques Coiplet, the director general of the Regional Health Agency, will be more than an observer. At the invitation of the director of GH70 who presented the meeting “in a constrained context of medical supply”, Thierry Gamond-Rius, the new director general of the CHU of Besançon, will also be present. Without delegitimizing the presence of the latter, Christophe Laurençot, the mayor of Gray, will surely repeat that he does not understand why the director of the Dijon hospital was not associated.
Because the other central point of the round table will revolve around potential or presumed applications from emergency physicians. At Gray, we certify the interest of professionals from the Côte-d’Or to come and work at Gray, but not on the other Haut-Saônois sites, as a contractual mobility clause would stipulate. Around the mayor of Gray, elected officials such as Claudy Chauvelot-Duban (first vice-president of the Departmental Council), Alain Blinette or Dimitri Doussot (presidents, respectively, of the communities of communes Val de Gray and Quatre Rivières) will officially ask that it is lifted by the management of the GH70, which ensures that it has not refused any application to date.
There is a tipping point, while the organization of a demonstration, on Saturday April 29, is brandished by Xavier Coquibus, the mayor of Arc-lès-Gray (see elsewhere). The challenge is to know if local elected officials and caregivers, who would be wondering about their future in Gray, will be able to have the CVs that the management of the GH70 does not have. “Let them be sent to us”, reacted Pierre Gorcy, pointing out that beyond Gray (6 emergency workers on site), Haute-Saône lacked 14 full-time positions.
