“It’s getting worse and worse”: in Strasbourg, emergencies extend to the hospital parking lot

A bell rings.

One of the two paramedics, mask on her face, goes to the bedside of the old man lying down to check his condition.

Eight patients like him can be accommodated in this temporary mobile unit, installed since the Christmas holidays in the emergency parking lot of the Strasbourg university hospitals (HUS).

This large, all-white prefab is supposed to allow ambulances and fire trucks to leave empty more quickly and not to wait for long hours, even if the building is overloaded.

It symbolizes the emergency crisis, and more broadly that of the hospital, which is increasing year after year and can lead to tragedies.

“There are undeniable losses of opportunity for certain patients,” says Sébastien Harscoat, doctor in the emergency room in Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin).

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