Due to a lack of resources and staff, many hospitals are forced to close, sometimes temporarily, their emergency services.

This is revealed by an investigation carried out by the Samu Urgences de France (SUdF) union, which denounces “institutional abuse” and fears that the situation will become explosive, report our colleagues from BFM TV, this Wednesday.

Restricted access and emergency closing

According to this situation survey in July, which covered 331 establishments in 92 departments, 95% of emergency reception services (SAU) encounter “significant problems with the availability of hospital beds for their patients”.

Indeed, 88 centers were forced to restrict access to their emergencies.

For 67 of them, this requires systematic medical regulation by the Samu Center 15.

“42 establishments were forced to complete a total night closure of their emergency services for a cumulative number of 546 nights in July.

By day, 23 establishments have completed a total closure, ”says the report.

“Towards an explosive situation”

According to the SUdF, the emergency services are in "very great fragility, due to unusual overactivity" and the flash mission, wanted by the Minister of Health François Braun, does not make it possible to compensate for this overactivity and to ensure the safe operation of these emergency services.

And with the holidays, the situation could deteriorate even more in August.

Denouncing “institutional mistreatment”, the union warns against “a rapid evolution towards an explosive situation” which would lead to new departures of nursing staff.

It therefore calls for the rapid implementation of measures to increase reception capacity.

It also recommends that the private sector be required "to participate in the downstream of emergencies and in a shared organization of the permanence of care in establishments in each territory".

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