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The hospital is suffering from a lack of staff. As summer approaches, everywhere he lack of doctors and nurses, Wednesday May 18. Some establishments are considering postponing caregiver leave.
Emergencies are closed at night in Bordeaux (Gironde) lack of staff. In Paris, a geriatric hospital closes for vacation time. Hospital services are on the brink of rupture everywhere in France on the eve of summer. At the hospital of Timone in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhone)a doctor is at more than 50 patients a day. There are only 16 emergency workers left when 30 are needed. Some, exhausted by the health crisis, have thrown in the towel.
Doctors therefore came together to deal with the crisis. One of the solutions is to recruit a foreign doctor. “There are peaks in August when we have an increase of up to almost 20% of admissions”says Jean-Luc Jouve, president of the medical commission in Marseille. In Bordeaux, emergencies no longer receive patients at night. You will now have to dial 15 which will filter. In Paris, nurses are lacking in a geriatric establishment.
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