Staff members of the Strasbourg CHRU denounced Thursday the lack of hospital beds and the overcrowding of the emergency room after the death of a man who had waited twelve hours to be taken care of.
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The man, suffering from a digestive haemorrhage, had arrived in the evening of Wednesday March 16 at the emergency room of the CHRU, and had been taken care of during the morning, the next day, according to the account given by Rue89 Strasbourg. , confirmed to AFP by caregivers.
Digestive hemorrhage, “
it's something that we know how to treat very well.
But undeniably, by dint of delaying the start of care because of a lack of available beds, this creates a loss of chance for the patient
, ”lamented to AFP Sébastien Harscoat, hospital practitioner in the emergency department.
“
We are getting to a point where we are constantly clogged.
We can no longer welcome, and despite our alerts, nothing happens
“, he continued.
Asked by AFP, the CHRU announced that the death had been declared a "
serious adverse event
", and announced the opening of an administrative investigation.
Chronic phenomenon
The management of the CHRU confirmed the care of the patient in the emergency room during the night, while reporting "
availability of beds in medicine, critical care and surgery
".
"
We were beyond our capacities
", maintains Sébastien Harscoat, "
if indeed there were a few beds available, there were not enough of them, even the next morning it was still complicated to admit patient
”.
According to Christian Prudhomme, general secretary of the Force Ouvrière union at the HUS, this overcrowding in emergencies has become a chronic phenomenon.
“
What happened is dramatic, but it had to happen
,” he regrets.
“
Today, we had another 14 patients who remained on a stretcher for more than 20 hours.
»
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“
Tuesday, we had up to 10 ambulances that could not drop off their patients, it's catastrophic.
We are reduced to sending rescuers instead of professional firefighters, because the firefighters are stuck at home
”.
The union official is now demanding the opening of an investigation by the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (Igas), in addition to the administrative investigation into the death.
Since December, hundreds of caregivers from the Strasbourg CHRU have mobilized on several occasions during minutes of silence observed in front of their establishments to denounce "
the announced death of the public hospital
".
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