At the Regional Hospital Center, more than 90% of emergency nurses and caregivers are in sick leave. The death of a patient, Monday, March 28, discovered on a stretcher, was the drop of water.
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Never-Vu. At the Regional Hospital Center of Orleans, almost all emergency caregivers have been in sick leave, for almost a week. The hospital, which triggered its white plan Tuesday, March 29, only maintains the activity with the use of nurses and caregivers of other services and the “pool” replacement. This has been reduced after a call for the population to solicit the service in case of “vital” emergencies.
According to the statement of the South-Santé-Social Union released on April 3, 79 of the 80 Emergency Nurses and 35 of the 45 caregivers are arrested – including the four health frameworks – or 90% of these paramedical personnel Emergencies, because of “the state of exhaustion and malaise” which has dominated for months, according to trade union representatives.
How did we come to this situation? The day “disaster” from Monday, March 28th was the “drop of water”, to resume the words of the caregivers. In one of the emergencies, a caregiver found one of his patients deceased, allegedly a stretcher. The death of this elderly lady was “expected,” explain in the medical ranks, but the conditions in which she intervenes upset a service already at the edge of the explosion. “It’s not the first, and it will not be the last emerging death, we know that we are confronted with death,” said Marine (the first name has been changed), a nurse presents that day, who wants to remain anonymous. But there are dead who shock more than others, and there, what shocks is that we can no longer with dignity patients. “
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The 25-year-old woman then takes care of the sector next door: it has 23 patients under his charge at the time of the witness passage to the afternoon team at 2 pm. A disproportionate number that comes up more and more often in recent months at the regional hospital, while the ratio of normal is a nurse for eight to ten patients. “We are no longer able to assume deaths like that, summarizes Marie Lefrançois, his colleague aid-caregiver. We realize that there will be dolls in these conditions where it goes beyond everywhere.”
In addition to this death, saturation is such that the new team that arrives for the afternoon, on Monday, March 28, refuses to take office and triggers a “right of withdrawal” – the fifth since the beginning of the year, according to South Health and Social. One way to pull the alarm bells and forcing to find unbinding solutions. In the corridors, the stretchers paint, in many boxes, there are three patients instead of two, even the white plan room, where patients have no privacy, has been reopened for a few days, according to caregivers present.
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