“Emergencies are not automatic.” Here is the message delivered this Thursday, June 30 by the prefecture of Pyrénées-OrientalesI’Regional Health Agency and the Perpignan hospital center in particular, in view of the summer period which puts pressure on the emergency services in the department. In order to respond to this, patients are asked each evening from 8 p.m., starting Monday, July 4, to first call the UAS (15) to assess care needs, as announced by the emergency department manager of the Perpignan hospital on France Blue Roussillonon June 21.
– Thomas Vichard
At the end of this call, you can therefore be redirected to your doctora on-call medical officewhere the emergency roomtherefore, if necessary.
The hours of the extended on-call medical center
A measure that does not concern pediatric and gynecological emergency services. This “regulation“, in the words of the director of the Perpignan hospital center, Barthelemy Mayol, thus makes it possible to maintain the reception of patients in good conditions seven days a week and 24 hours a day in the department. The idea is therefore to unclog the emergency room patients with symptoms that are relevant to general medicine.
The hours of the on-call medical center will be extended to take care of patients. Medical regulation will also be strengthened on the common platform of the Perpignan hospital centerfrom SDIS 66 and UAS so that more doctors can answer calls from patients, in order to redirect them.