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Hospital: in Carhaix, residents demonstrate against restrictions on access to emergencies
Hospital: in Carhaix, residents demonstrate against restrictions on access to emergencies
(France 2)
The residents of Carhaix in Finistère are up in arms against the partial closure of the emergency rooms of their town’s hospital which has lasted for more than a year. More and more hospitals are closing services due to lack of staff.
In front of the Carhaix hospital (Finistère), thousands of angry Bretons, Saturday October 12. Access to emergencies has been restricted for more than a year: the service is closed at night, and during the day you have to call 15 who decides what to do. A mother living in Carhaix had to drive more than an hour to Brest (Finistère). Sometimes the 15 directs towards Guingamp (Côtes-d’Armor) or Morlaix (Finistère) almost an hour away.
80,000 residents depend on emergency services in Carhaix. The entire region is experiencing a health systems crisis. This summer, in front of the emergency room in Brest, a union of caregivers set up a “wall of shame”: 130 elderly people had waited more than 12 hours in the emergency room in July.
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