“From here, 10 hours of waiting”.
It is not a countdown to access an attraction at Disney, but the supposed time to access the emergency room of a hospital in France, according to this poster shared by the inter-hospital collective and posted in Montfermeil (Seine- St Denis).
Only way to be able to speed up the procedure, to suffer from a “vital” emergency, specifies this document.
But does this message correspond to reality?
According to our information, the photo was taken this Tuesday at 9:15 a.m. by a nurse who needed an abdominal CT scan urgently.
“As for the origin of this poster, we do not know it.
It is probably the initiative of someone from the emergency room to explain to users that the waiting times are long.
Many emergency services have a bulletin board which gives waiting times, ”explains the inter-hospital collective.
But, contrary to what was first written on social networks, the hospital concerned is that of Montfermeil and not Montreuil.
Questioned by the emergency doctor Matthias Wargon, the collective behind the publication of the photo quickly recognized the error.
After checking it is Montfermeil and not Montreuil…Sorry for Montreuil.
In fact the emergencies are saturated everywhere and the waits are very long.
It is not the fault of the emergency doctors but currently above all the problem of downstream with closed beds in all hospitals https://t.co/5Z4btPcvCB
– INTER-HOSPITAL COLLECTIVE (@CollectInterHop) December 14, 2022
On site, Thierry Le Person, nurse and secretary of the Union Fédérale Autonome Santé (UFAS) union, talks about the work that is disrupting the service: “There is work in the emergency room, which can create tensions locally with waiting times. lengthened wait.
The reception is necessarily degraded.
However, his establishment is not immune to the structural problems of the hospital in France.
“We had big hot spots in pediatrics recently, and we are also experiencing bed closures,” he recalls.
"There has never been 10 hours of waiting at the hospital", beats the management of the Montfermeil hospital, contacted by Le Parisien, which confirms the work in progress within the emergencies, and this, over the next two years.
If she cannot estimate the current waiting time in the emergency room, she specifies that they receive 150 patients a day, "a high average".
The fault, among other things, of the triple epidemic which affects France: bronchiolitis, flu and Covid-19.
“Waiting between six and eight hours is an average”
If he has not seen the poster in question, Thierry Le Person reminds him: “Waiting between six and eight hours is an average, it is not surprising in the emergency room.
“Last June, the head of the emergency department of the Nantes University Hospital warned of an explosion in waiting time per patient: increased from 6.7 hours on June 10, 2019, to 8 hours in June 2021, reports Ouest-France.
“Even if it is quite common in winter, the emergency services have been overwhelmed for a few weeks, and more than usual”, insists the inter-hospital collective.
There are various explanations: lack of general practitioners, successive or cumulative epidemics and lack of beds.
"So the sick accumulate in the emergency room and stay on stretchers", denounces the collective of caregivers.
