Due to a lack of personnel, the emergency department of Pellegrin hospital is no longer able to accommodate all patients at night, but only those who first called 15 to be remotely oriented by a doctor.
Le Monde
After the partial and temporary closure of the emergency services of several cities in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, the adult emergencies of the Pellegrin hospital in Bordeaux, under tension for lack of staff, will no longer welcome the night than the Patients who first called 15 to be remotely oriented by a doctor, announced the Bordeaux University Hospital, Tuesday May 17.
This new operation, intended to regulate the influx of patients in the emergency room and compensate for a chronic lack of caregivers – half of the numbers lack the call According to the South West regional daily -will be set up as early as Wednesday every night from 8 p.m. to 8 am and “re -evaluated regularly”, said the Bordeaux University Hospital.
According to the director general of the Bordeaux CHU, Yann Bubien, quoted by Sud Ouest Tuesday, Pellegrin Hospital, the first emergency site in the New Aquitaine region, has experienced “tensions on human resources since the summer 2021. Many resignations, renewed contracts, departures. “
” unacceptable “
Several hospitals in the region-in Jonzac (Charente-Maritime), Sarlat (Dordogne), Orthez and Oloron-Sainte-Marie (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), Montmorillon (Vienne), Marmande (Lot-et-Garonne), Sainte -Foy-la-Grande as well as the Robert Picqué joint hospital in Bordeaux (Gironde)-have already adopted a similar or limited system the number of emergency opening days, detailed the Regional Health Agency (ARS) in a press release.
According to the ARS, for patients who did not call 15, “a phone connected to the Samu-Center 15 is accessible before emergency access” and, “in the event of a proven emergency, the patient is Supported directly by the emergency department “.
“We are number one in France, the biggest site on New Aquitaine and we will ask people to call before coming? It is unacceptable,” reacted Alain Essebar, secretary general of the CGT – Pellegrin on France Bleu Gironde.
“The worst is in front of us”
The unions have reported, for several months, a problem of workforce in several trades. “We have not heard the alerts of all professionals: doctors, paramedics, nurses or nursing assistants. (…) We work people at full speed on twelve hours, or even twenty-four guards hours for some doctors. We bring them to exhaustion or at the start “, deplored On France Info Gilbert Mouden, nurse anesthesiologist and representative of the South-Health Social staff.
“The whole emergency system derails” and “the worst is unfortunately not behind, but before us …”, completed the same union in a press release, believing that the emergency call system is “also In great suffering for lack of human resources “and” reinforced by more than forty medical students to maintain an acceptable response at 15 “.
Pediatric emergencies and the maternity hospital of Pellegrin hospital has not changed their operation, reports Sud Ouest. The emergencies of the Saint-André hospital and private clinics will remain open, also recalled, Monday, Bordeaux news , to whom regulatory doctors will be responsible for returning patients.