“We must make it a real national hospital cause”, believes the president of Samu-Urgences de France

Invited Thursday on franceinfo, the president of Samu-Urgences de France warns about the situation of emergency services in France.

“It is now considered to be a new nosocomial disease”alerted, Thursday February 22, on franceinfo the president of Samu-Urgences de France (SUdF) Marc Noizet, about the congestion of emergency services responsible for a “excess mortality”. For the head of emergencies of the hospital group in the Mulhouse and South Alsace region, “it is the hospital which induces this morbidity, therefore this worsening of patients, even this mortality”.

“We must make it a real national hospital cause, that is to say, the ministry must take this as its number one point,” he said. Wednesday February 14, in Toulouse, a patient committed suicide after several days on a stretcher, in a psychiatric emergency waiting area. In October, a 25-year-old patient died in the emergency room of Hyères, in the Var. Between January 2022 and March 2023, 136 “events” of this type, linked to emergency services, led to one death. “This is a huge number, undoubtedly underestimated”worries Marc Noizet.

“The entire health system must participate in the subject”

For the president of Samu-Ergences de France, “it’s not the emergencies that are in crisis” but good “the health system which weighs on the operation of emergencies”. In question, the number of beds available in specialized services causing this “congestion” emergency services. The emergency physician emphasizes that “the entire health system”both public and private, “must participate in the topic” because “Everyone needs emergency services that work.”

On Wednesday, six deputies, unions and associations demanded from the President of the National Assembly the rapid creation of a commission of inquiry into the emergency crisis and the “loss of chances” vital. “The opportunity to draw the attention of our deputies to this full and complete problem of the hospital”, according to Marc Noizet. But if “this commission of inquiry will not change anything about the diagnosis, he estimated, it will perhaps allow us to take this dangerousness into consideration and say it loud and clear.”