The crisis affecting public hospitals in France continues to worsen. Emergencies are at the forefront of this crisis. overwhelmed, they are no longer able to handle the incessant flow of patients. Adding to this structural crisis is the current triple epidemic of Covid-19, influenza and bronchiolitis. Faced with this dramatic situation, “90% of the adult Emergencies nursing staff at Pontoise hospital are on sick leave as of this morning,” the account tweeted. EmergenciesStopDiseasesconfirmed by the hospital, the Ile-de-France Health Agency (ARS) and the prefecture of Val-d’Oise.
“The vast majority of day care staff today did not take a seat in the emergency room,” Alexandre Aubert, director of the Novo de Pontoise hospital (Val-d’Oise) told the press. “63% of the hospital’s global team are affected by this movementor 49 people, he developed.
Among the staff who have applied for “sick absenteeism” are nurses, stretcher bearers and nursing assistants from the day and night teams, who want their management to be made aware of the tensions affecting them as well as the lack of staff and space at their service. ask for the activation of the “white floor”. This provision makes it possible to recall all medical and paramedical personnel, to open additional beds and to postpone non-essential operations.
“There are more than twenty hours of waiting in the emergency room”
“The emergency room remains open” and the medical team is “mobilized”, ARS Île-de-France told AFP. In order to “arrange the referral of patients to other” neighboring health facilities”,SAMU redirects patients graduallydepending on the care needs and a “regulation” is put in place.
“The answers to these questions are long-term answers. But there, the problem is that we have agents who ask for quick answers,” explained the director of the Pontoise hospital. “There are claims but there is also the feeling of feeling a little lonely“, he continues, insisting on the “enormous psychological factor”, according to him, at the origin of this dispute.
The scenes of endless waiting in the emergency room are increasing in France. At the Pontoise hospital, “patients are on stretchers in the emergency room, in the corridor,” a hospital assistant told AFP. “There are more than twenty hours of waiting in the emergency room to already see a doctor and for nurses to set up patients in a consulting room. We are exhausted, colleagues are fed up“, He added.
On January 1, 2023, Mediapart published a article describing the ER crisis in France. By way of introduction, the journalist Caroline Coq-Chodorge wrote: “During these end-of-year holidays, the sick have once again overflowed the hospital emergency rooms. In Bordeaux, some waited seven and a half hours in the fire truck. In Metz Thionvillethe former health minister’s hospital has set up tents normally reserved for disasters.”
The emergencies of Sarreguemines and Thionville have been experiencing tensions and numerous absences due to illness since the end of December. On Friday, the local prefecture and the Ars launched the white plan in all the department’s health facilities.
While traveling to Essonne on Friday, Emmanuel Macron announced a reorganization of the hospital and measures to facilitate patient access to a general practitioner and “exit this day of endless crisis” in the French health system.
