Many emergency services have been on strike for five months to demand more resources and denouncing their working conditions. What RMC reveals may well fuel this anger. For lack of beds, a 70-year-old man spent six days and 12 hours on a stretcher at the Saint-Quentin hospital in Aisne.
"Unfortunately it's recurrent"
"There was no room, the only solution we have in these cases is that we leave it like this (...) unfortunately, it is recurrent," says a caregiver of the hospital at RMC.
The collective Inter-Emergency, at the origin of the social movement, denounces this situation in a statement and ironizes on this "record in a context where the management turns a deaf ear on the demands of the staff".
Record of duration "hospitalization stretcher" beaten! In St Quentin, a 70-year-old patient spent 6 days and 12 hours on a stretcher for lack of a hospital bed ...
➡️ We continue to ask for a closure of the downstream beds closures! #SoutienALaGreveDesUrgences
Friday, 220 services were still affected by the strike.