By Melissa Dupin
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For two weeks, the reception service for emergencies from the hospital of Saint Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique) is once again faced with a strong activity. The waiting times are therefore strongly elongated and are likely to remain so in the coming days.
As the hospitalization capacities are already saturated in the hospital and in all the health establishments in the territory, the service is encountering difficulties in directing patients requiring hospitalization.
As already happened at the end of the Covid wave, the sudden increase in the number of visits, associated with a greater proportion of patients requiring hospitalization, generates a situation of saturation of the emergency reception service as well as specialty services. .
Free up beds
Exceptional measures are implemented to facilitate the release of hospital beds within the hospital center (CHSN) to accommodate patients in need: temporary reception in Ehpad, orientation of patients leaving at the end of care towards the hospitalization at home, transfers to other establishments, etc.
Very long delays for non-vital emergencies
But “in the current situation, users may be faced with very long waiting times for non-vital emergencies or be advised to join the care structure that usually follows them, for example for patients with a chronic disease. “.
The hospital invites the population to continue to respect the barrier gestures within the premises of the establishment, the circulation of the virus still remaining alive and posing an additional risk to the possibilities of care.
Vital emergencies
In order to unclog the emergency room, the hospital management reminds some essential reflexes to be observed by the population.
You should only call 15 in the event of a life-threatening emergency.
In other cases, on weekdays, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., it is recommended to contact your attending physician or SOS doctors and on weekends and after 8 p.m., it is advisable to call SOS doctors or the doctor on duty at 116 117 or 36 24.
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