“We are in a situation where, in a few months, we may have a hospital collapse”, warned Rémi Salomon, president of the medical establishment commission of the AP-HP, Friday, November 12 on franceinfo. “We need a strong signal now” on the part of the government to retain health professionals who want to leave, “And there are many“, he underlined.
“The situation in the hospital at the moment is catastrophic” in the Paris region and “very very worrying in many other regions”, he believes, specifying that this “does not date from yesterday, it is the consequence of a policy which has been carried out for years in which the hospital has been given resources solely on budgetary criteria. The hospital’s budget is fixed a priori , without taking into account the real needs “.
“What’s wrong is that we are understaffed. It’s been years.”, he denounces. “Two years ago, during the last bronchiolitis epidemic, I warned that we were sending infants 200 km from Paris because we had no places to hospitalize them. Above all, there is a lack of nursing staff, there is also a lack of doctors, there are emergency departments that are closing for lack of doctors, there are operating theaters that do not run because there is a lack of anesthetists. and nurse anesthetists “, he explains.
“Urgent surgeries are postponed, a kid who has a fracture that needs emergency surgery can wait two or three days, we were forced to refuse a liver transplant recently for a child.”
Rémi Salomon, President of the AP-HP Establishment Medical Commissionto franceinfo
“We have people who wait in the emergency room sometimes up to 24 hours to be able to find space. When you have a stroke, there are extremely effective treatments that must be done in the emergency, but today in Paris. 30% of beds in neuro-vascular emergencies are closed for lack of personnel, which means that when you have a stroke, you are in the fire engine and they are looking for a bed, they can spend time there, so it is a real loss of chance for the patient “, according to him.
Rémi Salomon finds that “this is unacceptable” and push a “cry of alarm”. “We hear officials telling us that they have put in a lot of money, it’s true, but we are so late that we have to put in more money”, he declares while welcoming the revaluation decided at the Ségur of health, but considers “ridiculous” the wages of night and weekend workers resulting in “nobody wants to go there anymore because it is painful”.