the Ile-de-France ARS is preparing for a “tense” summer, especially in maternity wards

The first feedback from the field has an air of deja vu. The Ile-de-France regional health agency anticipates such a summer “tense” than last year in Ile-de-France hospitals. “We think the situation will be tense to very tense”, worries the director of the ARS, Amélie Verdier, in an interview with AFP. While maintaining “organize to deal with it”she says she is counting on a “capacity to provide care comparable to last summer, that is to say difficult, but not worse”.

In this interview, Amélie Verdier reveals that she “apprehends tensions in Seine-Saint-Denis”, a notoriously poor department. The director of the ARS of Ile-de-France is also worried about maternity wards, where “we see a priori that there are a few more difficulties in general”. For the latter, the regional health agency “has already initiated actions with liberal midwives to see how they can come in a reinforced way in the establishments”.

Globally, “the subject is vacancies and how we organize ourselves to deal with them”, she explains. This also applies to emergencies where “The tensions concern the entire supply, including private clinics which have recurring difficulties”. In this sector, the ARS relies both on the “reinforcement of external personnel” like the “final year students” and about thirty “geriatric sectors” that avoid visits to the emergency room for the elderly.