Hospitalizations of children in inappropriate places, remote transfers, postponements of planned operations, early discharge from the hospital… In an open letter to Emmanuel Macron, published in c. Parisian Four thousand children’s guardians condemn the saturation of children’s hospital services.irresponsible political inaction“.
Deterioration of working conditions leads to “delay in care” and to “child endangerment– they warn. In this context, the bronchiolitis epidemic is saturating the services already.”bloodless“while”constant increase in paramedical and medical staff vacancies“.
Forum signatories highlight “loss of meaning for caregivers, resulting from bureaucratic management and performance-based pricing leading to general burnout and mass departure of hospital staff“. They demand from the President of the Republic.urgent and lasting measures to encourage health workers to return to hospitals with our children“. it is necessary”act quickly– they warn.
12 periods in the epidemic phase of bronchiolitis
This forum comes in the context of a national alert for bronchiolitis multiplicity, a respiratory disease that affects infants. During the week of October 10-16 alone, nearly 3,000 children under the age of 2 visited the emergency room. This is more than 50% compared to the previous week. Almost a thousand of them were hospitalized.
On Friday, Public Health France announced in its weekly update that 12 regions are now in an epidemic phase: Occitania, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, Brittany, Centre-Val de Loire, Grand Est, Guyana, Normandy. , Pays de la Loire, Hauts-de-France, Ile-de-France and New Aquitaine.
Some overburdened services in the Paris region have had to transfer their young patients. Some are more than 200 km away from their parents. Amelie Verdier, director general of the Ile-de-France regional health agency (ARS), admitted to AFP on Thursday.strong tensionIn the pediatric departments of the Ile-de-France region. “To date, 14 pediatric intensive care units have been transferred to other regions, namely Amiens and Rouen.“, he said.
He called outeveryone’s responsibility“, particularly for parents, “protect against winter epidemics“through barrier gestures and Covid vaccinations”.including for children“. Abroad, only Guyana is currently affected, but Mayotte, Guadeloupe and Martinique are in the pre-epidemic phase.
“Therefore, we are making all efforts,” said the minister
“There is a problem and we know itOn Saturday morning, the representative of the Minister for Territorial Organization and Health Professions, who was interviewed by franceinfo, responded. “We hope for solidarity between hospitals, solidarity with city medicine and work on longer opening of evening duty medical centers.Agnes Firmin Le Bodeau confirmed, noting to bringsupportfrom government to guardians.
“Ségur de la Santé has made it possible to reassess the health professions, it was catching, we know we still have to work in the hospital.“, he admitted. “The hospital had not been good for many, many years“, he added.
Later, Health Minister Francois Brown called “all the French are on the alerton Twitter, also inviting them to “call 15 before going to the emergency room with their child, because very often hospital care is not needed“.
“Therefore, we are making every effort to support children and their parents with ARS and hospitals.“, he announced. “To the pediatricians and the mobilized teams (…) I want to say that we are going to do everything to support you, in the short term in case of emergencies, but also in the long term to build the future together. pediatrics in our country“.
Source: Le Figaro
