Nearly 200 demonstrators gathered in front of the Laval hospital on Tuesday to demand more human and financial resources for the public hospital. The procession first stopped at the Haut-Rocher roundabout. Then he went down the boulevard des Trappistines before blocking the roundabout on the avenue de l’Atlantique.
Night closures like the one scheduled for Wednesday evening exasperate and despair. And this, well beyond the city of Laval. Firefighters joined the procession, because the night closures of the Laval hospital emergency room also have repercussions on their profession. Xavier is a night nurse at the Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne hospital.
“We observe an increase in the number of passages, with a constant workforce, and with regular passengers at night. We have to keep patients because there is no possible return or possible hospitalization in Laval. The people we keep, we’re not going to keep them in beds because there aren’t enough of them. So we put them on stretchers. And all this combined with the closure of the emergency room of the Bailleul hospital in Sablé-sur-Sarthe“explains this health professional from Mayenne.