Health: when emergencies are on the verge of implosion

In Strasbourg (Lower Rhine) an emergency doctor has the courage to sound the alarm. Despite the risk of losing his job, Sébastien Harscoat filmed his daily life for a month. Day after day, he films a hospital on the verge of implosion, apocalyptic reception conditions. “We are in this situation of catastrophe, of continuous war, of patients on the stretcher. The patient has been there for 48 hours, three days, four days, five days, it happens.“

The emergency doctor fears the worst

“And when we are overwhelmed, there are plenty of things that escape us“, laments Doctor Sébastien Harscoatin the emergency department of the Strasbourg University Hospital. The last patient remained on a stretcher for seven days. At each of his shifts, the emergency physician fears the worst. A tragedy like the one he experienced on March 17, 2022. A patient, found dead.