Chaos extends its grip on the emergency services at the Saint-Etienne hospital. A patient has just spent five days on a stretcher, as reveals France Bleue. While a strike has been going on for two months in all the services of Urgence de France, to denounce the lack of beds and working conditions, in Saint-Etienne, the situation becomes particularly critical.
This 72-year-old patient waited 120 hours on a stretcher, wandering down the corridor and hoping for a bed to free itself. What the staff deplores is that 28 beds were closed this summer. As a result, wait times are stretching and patients continue to arrive. Many must sleep in the corridors of the hospital.
"Thirty patients slept on stretchers"
"These are patients who, once they have been seen by doctors, are lined up in the corridors." Today, we attack the day with thirty patients who slept on stretchers one of which is at 60. It is more and more recurrent, and it is no longer acceptable, "denounces Amandine, nurse in Saint-Etienne, at the microphone of Europe 1.
For the moment, the management of the CHU is slow to express a concrete answer. But the hospital has pledged to react as early as Thursday afternoon.