Some four thousand patients living at home depend on electrical apparatus for their health. These patients at risk are called to get closer to an ARS.
by Valentin Stoquer
If targeted electricity cuts – load shedding – were necessary this winter, it is acquired that priority infrastructure, such as hospitals, will be spared. But what about people living at their home whose health, even survival, depends on respiratory devices operating on electricity?
Enedis spokesperson, Laurent Méric, guest of bfm-tv Monday December 5 , aroused a bronca by saying that People at high vital risk – Some 4,000 patients hospitalized at home – were not part of priority customers. This output, at the very least clumsy word, overshadowed the rest of its words.
A few seconds later, he assured, however, that a care existed well for each patient at high vital risk declared to the Regional Health Agency (ARS):
“If they did not respond to SMS, if they did not respond to the phone calls, if they did not respond to the emails, then an agent from Enedis will move. “
las, the first part of his intervention will earn him the ire of oppositions, those of the President of the Republic, of the Prime Minister and Minister of Energy Transition .
Practical precautions
In fact, people at high vital risks must get closer to an ARS to ensure that they are identified, in order to be part of a list, update and communicated regularly to Enedis. Then the approach is clear and takes place on the side of Enedis.
In the event that a load shedding is planned in the coming days, Enedis will contact all the people declared in this file three days before, then again the day before to ensure the good information of the people. Email, SMS, telephone call, all means will be used to ensure that everyone is well alerted from the cut off and can adapt accordingly.
Prepare for it is checking the level of the emergency batteries if you have them, ensuring the autonomy of the device to hold up to two hours without current, or get closer to doctors or Hospital caregivers who take care of treatment monitoring.
The manager of the French electrical network also intends to reassure that the system provides for the case where patients do not accuse the various messages sent. An Enedis agent will then be sent on site to inform the person, help them contact relatives or take steps with medical staff, or consider a transfer to an area that will not be relieved, like a hospital.
A device deployed all year 2>
This device is far from new and specific to the energy crisis. The French electrical network can experience dysfunctions all year round, for technical causes or as a result of climatic hazards. Most of the time, these are upper -scale cuts, but in more serious cases it is the same protocol that applies. The people concerned seem to be less worried than the actors of the debate, according to an article in the Parisian .
This is precisely what the Minister of Health explained, François Braun on Tuesday on BFM-TV. “All these people are listed, clearly identified and informed. The census is triple to really be sure to take everyone, it is their own fact, it is the work of the ARS, via hospital services where these people are followed, to identify them, and I also asked the suppliers of equipment. “