“In a few months, we may have a collapse of the hospital,” warned Rémi Salomon.
“There is a lack of personnel, which is causing the beds to be closed,” denounced the doctor. (AFP / BERTRAND GUAY)
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“The situation in the hospital right now is dire.” Guest of franceinfo Friday November 12, the president of the Medical Commission of establishment of the AP-HP (Public Assistance – Hospitals of Paris) Rémi Salomon did not mince his words. Throwing a “cry of alarm”, he painted the portrait of a hospital system which threatens to collapse.
“We are in a situation where, in a few months, we may have a collapse of the hospital,” warned the pediatric nephrologist. This situation “does not date from yesterday,” he continued. “This is the consequence of a policy that has been carried out for years in which the hospital has been given resources solely on budgetary criteria. The hospital’s budget is fixed a priori, without taking into account the real needs. “, he denounced. “Today, the most significant thing is that there is a lack of personnel, which is causing the beds to be closed,” he said.
“Today we do not meet the health need, urgent surgical interventions are now postponed,” he said. “A kid who has a fracture that needs to be operated on urgently can wait two or three days. We were recently forced to refuse a faith transplant for a child. (…) Today, against stroke, we has extremely effective treatments that must be done in the emergency but in Paris 30% of the beds are closed in these neuro-vascular emergencies for lack of personnel, it is a real loss of opportunity for the patient “, he said added.
a great need for additional staff and resources
“What is wrong is that we are short of staff. It has been years,” he insisted. “Two years ago, during the last bronchiolitis epidemic, I warned that we were sending infants 200 kilometers from Paris because we had no places to hospitalize them,” Remi Salomon recalled. . “Above all, there is a lack of nursing staff, there is also a lack of doctors, there are emergency departments which are closing for lack of doctors, there are operating theaters which do not run because there is a lack of anesthesiologists. resuscitators and nurse anesthetists, “he detailed.
“We hear officials who tell us that they have put a lot of money. It’s true, but we are so late that we must put more money”, continued the doctor who practices at the Necker-Enfants Malades hospital. If he welcomed the revaluation decided at the Ségur of health, he considers on the other hand “ridiculous” the remuneration of night and weekend workers so that “nobody wants to go there because it is painful”. “We need a strong signal now” from the government to retain health professionals who want to leave, “and there are many,” he insisted.
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