“Care too late, unstable care”. 10,000 carers condemn Macron’s ‘deafening silence’ on child crisis

“Mr. President, your silence is deafening“. No less than 10,000 children’s healthcare specialists sent an open letter to the president of the republic on Wednesday, November 30. Faced with a bronchiolitis epidemic affecting the youngest, caregivers are alarmed, published in this column; The world intolerable working conditions and overloading of services, accumulating in one month”treatment cancellations“and”operation reports“, “Our unique custodial emergency response“.

And the caregivers describe the crisis scenes that are now part of their daily lives.Children hospitalized on stretchers or on their parents’ knees in the emergency room, in an office outfitted for the occasion, children intubated and hospitalized in a roomless resuscitation corridor, too-late care and unstable care, premature homecomings, and disaster returns. Children were sent home due to lack of space, dozens of transfers out of intensive care areas, but also routine hospitalizations“.

The second cry of winter

At the beginning of winter, this is already the second case when pediatric services are trying to draw the executive’s attention to this situation. On October 21, after two weeks of winter epidemics, still “ordinary and predictable“Four thousand guardians have already been sentenced Parisian Saturation of pediatric hospital services, resultsirresponsible political inaction“. “A month later we are still without a response from you“This time, point to pediatricians, almost three times as many, to sign on to this new forum.

“We thought that moving children 300 kilometers from home was a serious degradation of care, now we see it could be worse; no longer able to transport as the epidemic has spread everywhere, saturating all children’s services in French– they warn. Due to lack of space, guardians say they have to send not onlyadolescents in adult services“but also now”3 year old children“.

The first victims of this overload “children with disabilities, chronic diseases and child psychiatry“waiting for care or surgery, highlight caregivers by describing them as”henceforth hospital permanent valve, perpetual adjustment variable“. “Mr. President of the Republic, this is our society’s last chance to stop the mass bleeding of frustrated, exhausted, guilty caregivers from the state hospital.– conclude the pediatricians, who ask the president to commit.Return the hospital service to the decision center“.