A stretcher bearer was seriously injured after being “beaten up by several people’ at Challans hospital, in Vendée. “Several people who were accompanying two patients treated in this department began to get angry because they were frustrated, either by the waiting time or because they weren't allowed to enter the department,” said the president of Samu-Ergences de France.
The Minister for Health Frédéric Valletoux denounced an “odious and cowardly act”