The emergency aid crisis is intensifying this summer. Of the 331 emergency services (AEs) surveyed, nearly half of the facilities nationwide, 90% reported experiencing medical human resource challenges, and 89% reported non-medical. These high figures were compiled after a survey by the Syndicate of French Emergency Situations, published in early August. The observation is simple: emergency structures are overloaded.
Several figures should be noted in this survey. 95% of reception services reported experiencing significant problems with hospital bed availability for their patients. And 72 facilities (22%) resorted to capacity reduction or complete closure of their short-term hospitalization department. service that receives patients from the emergency department.
Then the question arises: what are the reasons for this uncertainty? health crisismajor human resource challenges“related to summer,closing of hospital beds“and”less access to private care services due to summer holidays“, – lists the union at the beginning of the investigation. He warns.In this context, access to emergency care and unscheduled care is at risk“.
Insecurity is reinforced by summer
Emergency services are not the only ones affected. SAMUs and mobile emergency and resuscitation facilities (SMUR) are also overstretched. With regard to human resources, of the 97 SAMUs surveyed (out of 102 nationally), 98% indicated that they were struggling with medical resources and 95% with non-medical resources. Meanwhile, 75 SMURs committed to “to close a lane due to lack of staff, including 2 who closed lanes 2 and 4 at the same time“.
The summer period does not help matters. During the month of July 2022, emergency services recorded an average increase in activity of 12.3%, i.e. around 180,000 visits more than in 2021 during the same period. While SAMUs recorded an average growth of 21.5% in the same month compared to the same period in 2021. “The situation is expected to worsen in August, with an increase in institutional bed closures and reduced access to the liberal healthcare offer due to the holiday.“warns the union.
According to them, the implementation of the flash mission, which was originally planned to avoid an emergency this summer “Insufficient and does not provide fluidity and safe operation.” In this context, the union calls on the Ministry of Health and Prevention to take strict measures to respond to the emergency crisis, including opening a number of emergency beds that are equivalent to daily needs in all institutions. He also calls on the GovtThey demand“private sector”participate in emergency downstream and permanent care arrangements in a general facility in each area“.
Union asks for funds regarding SAMU”without delayenable the institutions to strengthen the human resources of the 15 centers and calls on the government;require the private sector to participate in emergency department and permanent care arrangements in general facilities in each area“.
Heading to the Nantes University Hospital on Wednesday to talk about the government’s measures to tackle the crisis in public hospitals, Health Minister Francois Brown confirmed there was none.emergency room closures“asking to stop using this term”terrible“. On the other hand, he confirmed that there is regulated access to these services. There is medically regulated access by carers to emergency services where there are no longer human resources to operate 107 regulations.“. According to him, “this regulation does not lead to a degradation of care, but to a better orientation according to needs“.
Source: Le Figaro
