The departmental council of Tarn-et-Garonne voted this Thursday, June 23, two motions against the State and the ARS following the deterioration of the healthcare offer. Emergencies will be closed from July 1 in Tarn-et-Garonne, you will now have to go through 15 or your attending physician to access them.
Both motions passed unanimously. This Thursday, June 23, the departmental council of Tarn-et-Garonne opposed the deterioration of the healthcare offer on its territory. Gathered to vote on the 2022 supplementary budget, elected officials could not ignore the catastrophic emergency situation announced for this summer.
From July 1, access to emergency rooms in Montauban and Moissac hospitals will no longer be free. Patients must first go through their attending physician or through 15. Those who do not respect the rule will be forced to contact the emergency doctor on site via an intercom before they can possibly be received.
A decision taken by the Regional Health Agency to deal with the shortage of doctors. Currently 15 out of 38 positions are vacant. Already, since December 2021, Moissac emergencies have been closed at night.
Faced with the deterioration in the supply of care and the closure of emergencies, the Tarn-et-Garonne departmental council voted two motions unanimously. They are addressed to the Minister of Solidarity and Health, to the director of the ARS and to the prefect of Tarn-et-Garonne.
On the Department websiteelected officials denounce “the precarious situation of the public health offer in the department and in particular the increasingly degraded emergencies”.
The elected representatives of the majority groups (“Radical and related” and “Tarn-et-Garonne in common”) denounced “a constant degradation of this public service, which poses real problems of access to care, especially for the poorest.”
The departmental advisers point the finger at the State, and through it the Regional Health Agency (ARS), which would not have sufficiently anticipated the shortage of doctors during the summer period. They ask the ARS “to take all measures to ensure, in continuity, the emergency service in all the hospitals of the Tarn-et-Garonne” and call on the authorities to act. The second motion denounces the operation in degraded mode of the emergencies of the hospital center of Castelsarrasin and Moissac since December.
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