The reception capacity is increasing at the Fréjus hospital with the opening of 19 additional beds. Site expansion work is also planned for 2027.
The Fréjus Saint-Raphaël hospital is opening 19 additional beds in its establishment. For this, the single rooms have been transformed into double rooms and offices have also been refurbished.
“We opened geriatric short-stay beds, explains Frédéric Limouzy, director of the Fréjus Saint-Raphaël intercommunal hospital center at BFM Toulon Var. We had about 46 beds, we went to 60.”
In medicine, seven additional beds were opened. “We were at 10, we went to 17 with the capacity to go up to 20 because there are a few special rooms”, continues the director.
“The longer he stays in the emergency room, the greater the risk of comorbidity”
These bed openings are a plus in the care of patients who come to the hospital.
“We know very well that a patient, the longer he stays in the emergency room, the greater the risk of comorbidity and perhaps death at some point”, notes Frédéric Limouzy. So there, we want to go faster, find him a bed faster and once again, he is better in a bed in a service than on a stretcher in the emergency room.
At the Fréjus Saint-Raphaël hospital, the emergency room has been under tension for many weeks. The service even closed its doors, except for vital emergencies, for three days due to a lack of staff. Most of the staff being exhausted for lack of sufficient means.
These new beds therefore offer a breath of fresh air to staff and boost the morale of caregivers a few months before the start of the summer season.
“A real, real, relief”
“There is a real, real relief, everyone is very happy, reports Benoît Kervella, secretary general of FO at the Bonnet intermunicipal hospital center. What they deplore and which I also deplore is that he has they had to express a state of general mental and physical fatigue so that they were finally heard.
And to remember that caregivers are mobilizing for their working conditions, but also and above all, for the good care of the patient.
“We have very complicated summers, continues the secretary general of FO. We have more than ten times the population that we have in winter here. It is absolutely necessary that the size of the hospital, in the broad sense, be in proportion the needs and demands of the population.
Expansion work on the hospital is planned for 2027. The reception capacity would increase from 30,000 to more than 50,000 patients per year.
