Pediatric emergency services are under tension when they have to face an early bronchiolitis epidemic. François Braun announced Tuesday “a large plan” on the future of the sector, which will be proposed in the spring.
Le Monde with AFP
The Minister of Health, François Braun, receives, Wednesday, November 2, pediatric professionals to work on the future of this sector, in great difficulty due to unsatisfactory working conditions and a lack of staff .
The objective of this meeting is to “work with [these pediatric professionals] on this refoundation not only of the hospital as a whole, but also of this child’s health sector,” said The minister Tuesday during a press briefing, after a visit to the Necker-Enfants Malades hospital in Paris. “A big plan” on the future of this sector will be proposed in the spring, he added.
Pediatric emergency services are under tension while poor working conditions and lack of personnel come up against the management of an early bronchiolitis epidemic, a respiratory disease that affects babies and sometimes leads them to the hospital . In Ile -de -France hospitals, pediatric resuscitation services are saturated, giving rise to patient transfers. 2> a collective in pediatrics at the Elysée Wednesday morning 2>
“We are today at 31 children transported outside the Ile-de-France region”, in full “peak” of the bronchiolitis epidemic, said Braun. The families of these transferred children will be “taken care of”, as had been the case during the transfers of COVID-19 patients to the height of the health crisis, he said.
A collective of 7,000 caregivers in pediatrics had sent an open letter to Emmanuel Macron, on October 22, to deplore working conditions and unsuitable care, results of “irresponsible political inaction”. The government responded with the announcement of an “immediate action plan” and the unlocking of 150 million euros for “hospital tension services”.
However, it has not yet specified what part of the envelope would return to pediatric services. “Inadequate” and “cynical” measures according to the collective in pediatrics, which wants to go to the Elysée Wednesday to give a letter to the Head of State.