“We are at the end of June and this morning there were already 20 patients on stretchers. What will it be this summer?
Professor Louis Soulat, vice-president of Samu Urgence de France and head of emergencies at the Rennes University Hospital (Ille-et-Vilaine), is worried.
Staff shortages are getting worse, the healthcare system is cracking on all sides, and if the specter of a catastrophic summer is haunting everyone, we are hardly more optimistic for the start of the new school year:
"The malaise is such that we there will be mass departures,”
predicts Louis Soulat.
He himself admits
"wondering about the motivations for staying in the public hospital"
and is thinking of finishing his career in the interim, which is more remunerative and much less restrictive.
On the side of the hospital directors, there is a cautious silence pending the official presentation of the Braun report.
Decisions have however been made in the emergency room as elsewhere, but the solutions are often a piece of string and, above all, come very late...
"There is a lack of anticipation about what is...
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