In Laval, this emergency physician is concerned about a measure put in place to address the shortage of doctors

Since Monday, September 9 in Laval, SAMU intervention vehicles do not always leave with an emergency doctor on board. This is one of the solutions found by the director of the hospital center, he indicates on France Bleu Mayenne. “The SMUR doctor will take up his post in the emergency room and come to reinforce the emergency room, explains Sébastien Tréguenard. This is what is done in a very large majority of hospitals in France and this is what we have not managed to do until now.”

For Caroline Brémaud, emergency physician and head of department at Laval hospital, this measure puts patients’ lives in danger. “You imagine respiratory distress in an asthmatic patient ? We send the ambulance. The patient’s condition deteriorates, as it often does, and he has to be intubated, the emergency doctor worries. We will have to wait for the doctor and there will be deaths, that is certain.”

The Laval hospital would also like to entrust emergency calls at night to a doctor from Angers to save the working hours of its dispatchers and, there too, the emergency doctors think that this will put patients in danger by delaying their treatment.