“Let’s say we’ve had the hardest time”summarizes Dr. Pierre Emmanuel Lebas with a smile as he crosses the emergency department of the Dracénie hospital center (CHD). “We have twelve full-time equivalents at the moment and recruitment is on the way”, welcome Florestan Perret, director of medical and general affairs, and Pascale Thezelais, director of human resources. A figure much higher than the six doctors in post when the establishment had to close its doors at night to the public in November 2021. “We were absolutely flushed with the summer season and two years of Covid”remembers Dr. Lebas. “It was a question of safety, both for the medical team and for the patients. At the time, they were on call 24 hours a day out of two. It was untenable”continues Jean-Marc Minguet, president of the medical commission of the Dracénois establishment.
Partial closure for 22 months
The hospital then closed its doors to the public every evening from 8:30 p.m. until 8:30 a.m. the next day. A situation still relevant today, the week. Since June 9, the reception of the public is again possible 24 hours a day, weekends and eves of public holidays. “We could reopen every day, but we prefer to secure things so that this reopening is sustainable”continues Dr. Lebas. “But we never actually closed, because we are still providing life-saving emergencies and Smur deployments”mobile emergency and resuscitation structures.
“We had agreed with the hospitals of Fréjus and Gassin so that all the patients in our sector taken care of during the night would be automatically repatriated to us in the morning, so that we could discharge them from the service they had given us. rendered”insists Charles Le Maout, head of the medicine-emergencies center at the CHD.
Solidarity of Gassin
EMERGENCY HOSPITAL DRAGUIGNAN VALERIE LE PARC / Nice Morning.
The hospital center of the Gulf of Saint-Tropez is also plagued by difficulties which are close to the Dracénoise equation. Due to a lack of staff, it had to close its doors to the public from 6.30 p.m. the following day at 7.30 a.m. on Tuesday 8 and Wednesday 9 August. Only vital emergencies were taken care of by the doctors on site. Other closures could take place in the coming days.
A well-known situation for the Dracénois. But that seems to be a thing of the past for them. So much so that they can even afford to help their colleagues in Gassin. “We have three emergency doctors who help them on their day off”explains Charles Le Maout. “We do three shifts per doctor and per two-month period”says Dr. Lebas, who now provides this reinforcement within the establishment. “You have to show solidarity. When we were in the abyss, a year and a half ago, they helped us.”
The management hopes to be able to recruit new doctors. “As long as the person we want to recruit has not signed, nothing is decided”, eludes Florestan Perret, cautious.
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