Yasmina Kattou, edited by Romain Rouillard
With the approach of the holidays, the situation is not improving in the hospital services where the shortage of personnel mixes with the lack of means to create an untenable situation. On Europe 1, doctor Marc Noizet alerts on the oversolicitation of the Samu regulatory platforms and calls on the State to react.
Covid-19, bronchiolitis, flu… This winter, epidemics are multiplying and are further shaking hospital services, already faced with understaffing and a lack of resources. A critical situation, by the very admission of the Minister of Health, François Braun. Especially since the emergency services are increasingly in demand as the holidays approach. The Samu notes an increase of 30 to 40% in the number of calls in recent days.
“55% more activity compared to December”
An untenable reality for Doctor Marc Noizet, president of the Samu-Urgences de France union. “Our regulation platforms at center 15 and in the SAS (care access services) are overstretched with 55% more activity compared to December 2021”. The doctor deplores a “congestion” which has “never been so important”, especially for “stretcher patients who remain 12, 24, 36, 48 hours or more before a hospital bed is found for them”.
Faced with this observation, Dr. Noizet calls on the State to take action. “We are calling for a national leap forward with clear decision-making from our ministry”. And to provide some proposals: “For example, allow the mobilization of personnel to strengthen emergency services, to strengthen care services and open beds by mobilizing personnel who, today, are less in demand”. Finally, the doctor calls for the triggering of a “national white plan” which would allow the State to deploy “exceptional means”.