The Purpan hospital invites patients who do not require urgent care by the SAMU to contact private health establishments, their doctor or the nearest childcare medical center, from Monday 6 p.m. .
Le Monde with AFP
The Toulouse University Hospital Center (CHU) joins the list of establishments whose emergencies work in degraded mode. The adult emergencies of the Purpan hospital will only be open to “vital emergencies” from Monday June 13 in the evening, announced Sunday the CHU.
“Due to a massive strike coordinated within emergencies, the Toulouse CHU adapts the activity of emergencies and its medical and surgical services to carry out its public health mission and patient safety”, Hospital . The hospital invites patients who do not require “urgent” management by the SAMU to contact private health establishments, their attending physician or the nearest childcare medical center, from Monday 6 p.m.
According to hospital unions, the CHU management also requested the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Occitanie for the establishment of a white plan. The information was confirmed by the Hospital in Actu toulouse , the direction explaining that” strong tensions are announced in the caregivers of emergencies ” And that “the other six emergency services of the agglomeration are not able to [help him] to help sustainably and to absorb CHU emergencies”.
“Unacceptable conditions”
Monday’s strike day, notably at the call by the majority union CGT (General Confederation of Labor), is organized less than a week after a strong mobilization of unions and hospital collectives throughout France to claim wage and workforce increases.
“The contempt continues towards emergency staff. The nevertheless simple and common sense claims are still brutally refused by management,” said the CGT in a statement, calling for a “total strike”. “In the emergency room, we work in unacceptable conditions, with a single nursing caregiver for 25, even sometimes 40 patients,” said Julien Terrié, a CGT union representative, to the France-Presse agency, pointing to a “setting danger of patients “.
The union representatives of Purpan psychiatric emergencies have also announced to join the strike “to denounce the conditions of reception of patients (…) which have deteriorated dangerously for several years”.
“For lack of space in hospital units, we are currently forced to host patients for several nights on a consultation service, in deplorable conditions”, without water or toilets, say- They in a press release. They also warn against a climate of “insecurity” within the service, “as much for patients as for caregivers”.
According to the SUDF union (Samu-Urgences de France), 120 emergency services are forced, for lack of staff, to reduce their activity or prepare for it. Among them, some large establishments, such as those of Bordeaux, Grenoble or Rleans.