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The heat wave affecting the country is once again putting pressure on hospitals. Emergencies are chronically understaffed and sometimes have to close their doors. On Wednesday August 3, the Minister of Health, François Braun, visited the Nantes University Hospital.
The Minister of Health, François Braun, was visiting the Nantes University Hospital, Wednesday August 3, in a regulatory service under tension, like many others. In this one, 71,000 calls were received in July alone. The emergencies are saturated and the lack of beds delays hospitalization in stride. Emergency doctor a few weeks ago, the minister mentioned regulation as a means of filtering patients.
He also rejected the idea of emergency services being closed. “There are no emergency closures, I think we have to stop with this term which is used all the time. There is no closure, there is regulated access, medically or by carers to the emergency services, in places where there are no longer the human means to operate without this regulation“, he claimed. He also assured that the regulation did not consist of “degradation of care […]but on the contrary it provides better orientation of patients according to the needs“. A position that the unions, in particular the CGT, strongly contest.