Jean Castex clarified the health protocol for ski resorts this Saturday, November 6, definitively recording their reopening, already announced by the Secretary of State in charge of tourism.
But doctors at Grenoble hospitals are already starting to worry about the situation.
"
If the ski resorts are open at full speed, we risk not being able to absorb the 100 traumatic emergencies that this represents each day for the Grenoble area
", worries Didier Legeais, vice-president of the union of physicians of the Isere.
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The situation in the department is already tense: “
We have services that are closed, others in high tension.
It sometimes takes 10 hours to be taken care of in an emergency department,
”continues the doctor.
However, Didier Legeais does not advocate the complete closure of the stations: “
Our role is to say attention.
I am expressing my concern, not to harm the mountain economy, but so that solutions can be found in terms of health,
”he assures us.
He would thus like the actors to sit around the table to organize themselves: "
We are going to free up operating ranges for trauma, meet with mountain doctors to provide as much care as possible in the high mountains and a blank plan has been created. was triggered on Friday to pool beds and staff
”. But all this will only be enough in the absence of a fifth wave.
For its part, the CHU Grenoble Alpes, indicates that "
winter sport trauma remains a point of vigilance
" because of the already sustained activity of the emergency reception services, despite the fact that the winter period does not exist. has not started yet.
The reception of injured people from winter sports is thus organized from now on at the territorial level in conjunction with the partners and the ARS.
Confident mountain doctors
The doctor also insists on the role of economic actors in the mountains. "
They must do prevention, put up posters to remind people that after two years without skiing, you have to be careful
" explains Didier Legeais. Another aspect of action: the facilitation of the work of mountain doctors who absorb a large part of the trauma and act as protection for emergencies below the chain of care: “
The stations must be better accessible for emergency services, that it is possible to park at the offices of mountain doctors,
”he continues.
Mountain doctors appear to be more confident, however, and are keen on reopening the lifts: “
We are in solidarity with our hospital colleagues, but the issue is not that of closing the ski lifts.
We should rather talk about improving conditions in the hospital
”explains Suzanne Mirtain, president of the association of mountain doctors.
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In addition, mountain doctors ensure that they are "
sized to take care of the wounded
".
“
95% of winter sports injuries do not need hospitalization and are therefore taken care of in the resort,
” adds Suzanne Mirtain.
"
The lifts must reopen, their closure has had too great an impact on the local populations
" laments the president of the association.
