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France: Emergencies in crisis

Night access to the emergency room of the Pellegrin hospital in Bordeaux is now limited to patients treated by the Samu.

AFP - GEORGES GOBET

By: Caroline Paré Follow

1 min

Hospitals affected by the crisis in emergency services are stretching out in France.

Due to a lack of caregivers, some services are forced to close at night and no longer provide office hours at weekends.

In response, President Emmanuel Macron launched a mission, responsible for taking stock of the situation and proposing responses this summer according to the territories.

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How to explain this new stage in the long crisis, which hospital emergencies are going through in France?

What is the link between medical desertification and emergency room overload?

How does the general crisis in the hospital affect its vital services?

Does this situation pose risks to the population in terms of public health?

• Pr Frédéric Adnet,

  Head of the Emergency Department of the

  Avicenne Hospital

   in Bobigny and Medical Director of the Samu de la Seine-Saint-Denis

• Dr. Maxime Billon

  , 26, junior doctor in emergency medicine at the

  Édouard-Herriot Hospital in Lyon

• Fabien Paris,

  emergency nurse at

  Saint-Nazaire hospital

  in Loire-en-Atlantique

At the end of the program, we take stock of the

 which takes place from June 24 to 26 at the

.

We talk about it with

director of programs for the

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