Since Friday, October 29, the Draguignan hospital has closed its emergency department every night.

From 8:30 p.m. to 8:30 a.m., only vital emergencies are taken care of.

For the 100,000 inhabitants of the Dracénie basin, it is now necessary to take the road and go to Fréjus, Toulon or Brignoles, at night.

A situation that causes great anger.

Several dozen people, local elected officials, hospital staff and ordinary residents, gathered Friday evening in front of the hospital emergency room to denounce the closure of the service.

"This is not normal, an emergency service, as its name suggests, is for emergencies, and emergencies do not stop at half past eight" in the evening, notes a retiree.

But the anger is not so much directed towards the direction of the hospital, which explains in a press release having taken this decision following "a situation of exhaustion" of the emergency team which no longer allows " to continue to carry out its mission under conditions compatible with the requirements of quality and safety of care ”.

“We have been working 100 hours a week for more than six months,” explains Pierre-Emmanuel Lebas, emergency doctor.

"Already, when there were temporary workers, we were at the cleat, but now that there are no more, it is a cleat that is outdated because we can not do more, physically and even legally", continues the practitioner.

According to him, the new generations of doctors want to work “48 hours, but no more”.

6 doctors instead of 20

The emergency department, which welcomed between 100 and 150 people before it closed at night, is currently running with 6 doctors while around 20 would be needed.

According to management, this situation stems from the difficulty of recruiting practitioners "due to particularly unfavorable medical demographics".

"It is indeed a lack of doctors that brings us to this closure, and there is not much we can say about this, because it would endanger everyone, both the staff and the population", remarks Frédéric Duthé , CGT manager at the hospital center, which shows its determination to "fight to keep this service" and its open 24 hours a day with the inter-union also formed of FO and South.

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