Far from improving, the tensions in the pediatric services are on the contrary likely to worsen.
In question, in particular, the epidemic of bronchiolitis in infants, which continues to progress.
According to the new weekly bulletin published this Thursday by Public Health France, all the indicators were up last week:
+ 47% visits to the emergency room, + 45% hospitalizations and + 28% SOS Médecins procedures compared to the previous week.
Corsica was in turn placed in the epidemic phase, which is now the case for all regions of metropolitan France.
The situation is particularly tense in Ile-de-France hospitals.
Around thirty children have already been transported outside Île-de-France to other regions for intensive care.
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Hospitals, and in particular their pediatric departments, are very often faced with a shortage of staff.
On October 22, a group of 7,000 pediatric caregivers sent an open letter to Emmanuel Macron - revealed by Le Parisien - to deplore unsuitable working conditions and care, the results of "irresponsible political inaction".
Open letter from caregivers
The Minister of Health, François Braun, received this Wednesday afternoon the actors of the sector to try to provide solutions.
He also intends to "work with them on this overhaul not only of the hospital as a whole, but also of this child health sector", he said on Tuesday, after a visit from the Necker-Enfants Sick Hospital in Paris.
In the end, the government responded by announcing an “immediate action plan” and the release this Wednesday of 400 million euros for “hospital services under tension” (not only for pediatrics) , instead of the 150 million initially planned.
