insufficient regulatory centers

The calls follow one another to the Samu telephone center. In Cherbourg (Sleeve)patients can no longer go spontaneously to the emergency room between 3 p.m. and 8 a.m. They must contact 15 to first call the Samu and then they will be directed or not to a hospital center. “For example in June, we increased by 101% the number of files and in the month of July by 87%which is huge“, describes Antoine Hubert, part of the SAMU call service.

These regulations concern the whole territory, a quarter of hospitals have already installed this system. However, faced with the high number of patients, the dispatch centers are still overloaded, so they ask retired doctors to come to their aid. “I’m going to do my part and come and help my colleagues who are a little in pain, in quotes, and then also help the population“, explains Doctor Patrick Sarfati. In Marseilles (Bouches-du-Rhône), the hospital has asked doctors from Maghreb countries to help them. François Braun, the Minister of Health, however, wanted to reassure by specifying that there are no emergency closures. However, in fact, several establishments had to stop this service at night.