Faced with the pandemic, the deprogramming of surgical interventions deemed non-urgent is intensifying.
Since April 6, the regional health authorities (ARS) have been sending letters to establishments, requiring them to postpone between 40% and 80% of acts, in order to redeploy staff to Covid patients.
After a total deprogramming during the first wave, much more concerted during the second, surgeons and anesthetists denounce this time “
brutal bureaucratic decisions
”.
Regretting the lack of dialogue and the poor consideration of the local epidemic situation, they sound the alarm bells.
And this for four reasons.
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First of all, from a medical point of view, this situation creates a loss of opportunity for the patients.
“
This is the next health bomb
, warns Philippe Cuq, president of the Union of Surgeons of France and co-president of the union Avenir Spé-Le Bloc.
We are going to see patients arriving with aggravated pathologies.
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