Louise Douillet, edited by Ophelie Artaud
A few days ago, 4,000 pediatricians issued a cry of alarm in an open letter to Emmanuel Macron, denouncing the structural problems affecting pediatric services at a time when a strong epidemic of bronchiolitis is affecting the country. The government responded to them, providing a solution that health professionals consider insufficient.
It’s not really the answer he was expecting. 4,000 pediatric caregivers have signed an open letter addressed to Emmanuel Macron in which they denounce the saturation of hospital services. In question, the epidemic of bronchiolitis, but also structural problems. An alert to which the government therefore responded. It was Agnès Firmin-Le Bodo, the Minister Delegate for Health, who spoke, indicating that the government was aware that pediatric emergencies were saturated. And she added to count on the solidarity between hospitals and city medicine. No permanent solution, therefore, nor additional means. What deplores the president of the French Society of Pediatrics, Professor Christine Gras-Le Guen.
“The sick accumulate in the corridors, in insufficient monitoring conditions”
“Here, it’s not DIY that we need, but we need a general construction site. The patients accumulate in the corridors, under monitoring conditions which are absolutely insufficient. There is a depletion of families and medical teams who tell us ‘we’re not going to hold out.’ And the pediatricians come to take care of the guards with a lump in their stomachs saying to themselves ‘What hell! It’s going to be another 12 hours that we’re going to chain that we cannot take care of the children properly.
Unprecedented situation even though the peak of this epidemic is far from being reached and it is necessary to continue in parallel to treat other epidemics such as influenza, Covid or even gastroenteritis.