From this Friday in Vendée, you will no longer be able to go to the emergency room between 11 p.m. and 8:30 a.m.. Public hospitals in the department restrict access all summer due to lack of staff. In the event of a life-threatening emergency, you must first dial 15 or 116-117 in other cases, to redirect patients and prioritize the most serious emergencies.
A sustainable system?
The crisis in the French health system is forcing hospitals to reorganize. “The emergency service is not the only answer” see the doctor François Brau from the Vendée departmental hospital center. “Sometimes advice, delayed care or a consultation with a general practitioner is the right answer. […] If the filtering works and relieves the teams, we will support a request to perpetuate this mode of operation.
The situation is not not new in Vendée. At Luçon and Fontenay-le-Comte hospitals, this system has already been in place since June 8. In Montaigu, hospital emergencies are temporarily closed at night (between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m.).