MPs and associations want a commission of inquiry into the situation in hospitals

“Everyone is ready to believe that these tragic situations are increasing sharply,” estimate six deputies, unions and associations.

Six deputies, unions and associations are calling for the rapid creation of a commission of inquiry into the emergency crisis. They sent a letter to the President of the National Assembly on Wednesday February 21, after several recent tragedies. “Not a week goes by without the press relaying stories of patients who died in the emergency room, sometimes on a stretcher, in the corridor, due to lack of adequate care capacity”deplore the authors of this letter sent to Yaël Braun-Pivet.

“Everything ready to believe that these tragic situations are on the rise”believe the co-signatories, who denounce “loss of chances” vital. Around a hundred left-wing deputies and Liot had already tabled, in mid-September, a proposed resolution for the creation of such a commission of inquiry, without effect to date. Six months later, “We ask you [sa] placed on the agenda of the Assembly”argue the deputies Damien Maudet (LFI), Pierre Dharréville (GDR), Sabrina Sebaihi (EELV), Arthur Delaporte (PS), Sébastien Peytavie (ecologist) and Yannick Favennec (Liot).

“Shedding light” on the phenomenon

Among the fifty signatory organizations, national or local, are the health branches of the CGT, the CFDT or Sud-Solidaires, the Association of Emergency Physicians of France, groups of caregivers such as the Collective Inter-hospitals or even Médecins du Monde, Attac, the national collective for women’s rights etc.

For several months, dramatic stories have been happening in emergency services. And the facts are more and more serious.

With colleagues from NUPES and the LIOT group, we ask the President of our Assembly to put a commission on the agenda… pic.twitter.com/qq8eDumkHv

— Damien Maudet (@damienmaudt) February 21, 2024

Caregivers alert “For years” on the saturation of emergencies, deplore the co-signatories. For example, they regret a systematization of “regulation by 15” which conditions support for a compulsory call, implemented in the summer of 2022 as a mode “degraded but transient”. They also recall the count of the Samu-Urgences de France union, which recorded, between December and January 2022, 43 deaths “unexpected” in emergencies in 22 departments, potentially linked to too long a wait.

A recent study by Inserm, AP-HP and the University of Rouen also showed that for a patient aged 75 and over, a night on a stretcher increases the risk of hospital mortality by 40%. It’s necessary “turn on the light” on the phenomenon, they judge, inviting other deputies, including members of the presidential majority, to join the initiative and to co-sign a posteriori.