To “face” and anticipate “situations of tension” until early 2022, the DGS recommends in particular the launch of “a monthly national survey to clarify the situation of health establishments”.
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Are hospitals on the verge of running out of caregivers? In a letter addressed to doctors, the General Directorate of Health (DGS) warns about “the difficulties in filling in the on-call schedules or in maintaining a complete care offer for several years during the winter and summer months”.
The agency attached to ministry of Health explains that these difficulties were felt “from this fall in establishments due to the successive waves of the Covid-19 epidemic […] and an active and early circulation of winter viruses, especially influenza “.
For “to face” and anticipate the “stressful situations” until early 2022, the DGS first recommend launching“a monthly national survey to clarify the situation of health establishments”. Then, the agency mentions the activation of territorial units to monitor tensions and “the anticipation, preparation and responses to stressful situations in emergency medicine structures”.
Finally, the DGS incites to “the organization of on-call ambulatory care [PDSA] and strengthening the continuity of care in town “. “Given the current period, we insist on the need to immediately engage all levers to keep open services in critical situations, especially emergencies”, concluded the DGS.
The article made some members of the medical profession react, like the National Union of Hospital Anesthetists-Resuscitators. The organization qualifies these measures d“inadmissible“, in a press release. “They will end up scaring young and old alike from the public hospital, and from health professions in general”, insists the union.