She doesn’t want “to stigmatize” nobody, and especially not the doctors of the hospital, that she “admire”. But in the past two months, Sylvette (who does not wish to give her name) has seen her chemotherapy postponed twice, at the Moulins-Yzeure hospital center in Moulins. Each time for a week. In question, the drastic reduction in activity of the oncology department, after the departure of its last incumbent practitioner at the end of April.
“We feel a little abandoned”recognizes the 68-year-old woman, whose pancreatic cancer – “metastasized, not curable, not operable”she summarizes in one go – was diagnosed a little over a year ago. “It’s not just a cold”she said without acrimony in her voice. “This is not a comfort treatment, but the protocol that keeps her alivetakes more harshly his daughter, Céline. These repeated delays in treatment reduce his chances of living. »
How can such a serious treatment be postponed? “The doctor told me that as I had long-term chemo, there was no impact on my disease”reassures the sexagenarian, while noting that her « markers [tumoraux] are a bit up” lately, without wanting to make any connection. What worries him, however, is the impact on his daily life. “With a disease like that, we don’t have long-term projects, but still, we try to make small projects, to keep a life between two chemos, explains the patient. There, that complicates everything. »
In Moulins, the hospital had to resort to an extreme solution: “We can no longer provide chemotherapy”, explains Davy Murgue, president of the medical commission for the establishment of this 800-bed hospital. In May, the 200 people followed were redirected to hospitals in Clermont-Ferrand, Vichy, Montluçon (Allier) and Nevers. “It’s inevitably heartbreaking to send away patients we know, for painful pathologies such as cancer”said the paramedic.
“We are already exploding”
In addition to the departure of the last incumbent practitioner of the service, Doctor Murgue underlines the immense difficulty in finding temporary doctors since the application of the Rist law, on April 3, which caps the remuneration of the latter. “It’s not just cancerology, it’s also very complicated in our medical departments, in pneumology, in psychiatryhe explains. We are no longer sure of being able to maintain certain activities this summer, I don’t think we realize how much the hospital is on a ridge. »
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