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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
Solidays festival
which takes place from June 24 to 26 at the
Longchamp racecourse
.
We talk about it with
Florent Maréchal,
director of programs for the
Solidarité Sida association.
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