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For weeks, the emergency services of university hospitals and small hospitals have been organizing themselves as best they can to lower the pressure. They sometimes opt for restricted hours or for regulation by the SAMU.
At the Montluçon hospital (Allier), the emergencies are no longer really so. Since Tuesday, May 31, a poster welcomes patients and only real medical emergencies are admitted. The shortage of emergency physicians is far from being a novelty: it is even a fundamental movement. “In the emergency room, there are 3.5 full-time teams instead of 22”figures Dr. Thierry Comte, head of the metabolic and critical care center of the hospital.
Schedule management becomes an insoluble puzzle and the causes are identified. “The fatigue following the Covid crisis, the medical desertification, then (…) perhaps from time to time want to do something else”, explains Bernadette Mallot, general manager of the hospital. In Cherbourg (Manche), emergencies have been accessible since Monday, May 30 between 3 p.m. and 8:30 a.m., provided you go through 15. Here, only a third of emergency room positions are filled.