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Emergency services, SMUR and 15 "are in great difficulty", alert Samu-Urgence France

2022-08-04T12:12:13.885Z


The president of Samu-Urgences France (SUdF) Marc Noizet, the successor to the Minister of Health, was questioned on franceinfo this Thursday morning.


The emergency services, the SMURs, on 15 are in great difficulty operating

,” said Thursday the president of Samu-Urgences France (SUdF), successor to François Braun, after the publication by his union of an investigation into the emergency situation in July.

For emergency activity, "

there are places where it happened normally

" in July and others which have experienced "

very significant increases of 80 or even 100% activity

", declared Marc Noizet to the franceinfo microphone.

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These services were faced in July with an average increase in activity of 12% compared to the same month of 2021, i.e. 180,000 more visits, according to the online survey carried out by the SUdF among 331 health establishments (i.e. nearly 50% of structures having an emergency service).

95% of emergency services say they encounter “

significant problems with the availability of beds

”, 90% difficulties with medical human resources and 89% lack of non-medical human resources.

ER Access Restrictions

In the wake of the recommendations of the "

flash mission

" entrusted to François Braun before his arrival at the Ministry of Health, 88 of the establishments questioned have put in place a restriction of access to emergencies, including 67 with systematic regulation by the SAMU, also in trouble.

42 establishments were "

forced to complete a total night closure

" of emergencies for a cumulative number of 546 nights in July, according to the survey.

During the day, 23 establishments completely closed their emergencies for a cumulative number of 208 days.

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Visiting the Nantes University Hospital on Wednesday, the Minister of Health François Braun, president of Samu-Urgences France until his appointment, refused to speak of "emergency closure".

It is "

a scary term

", he pleaded, preferring to speak of "

medically regulated access

".

The Minister of Health caught in the act of lying this morning by claiming that no emergency service was closed at night

,” Christophe Prudhomme, spokesperson for the Association of Emergency Physicians of France (Amuf), contrasting the figures from the SUdF survey.

"

The minister is doing his job

" and "

is there to reassure the people

" without going "

into the granularity

" of the situation, tempered Thursday Marc Noizet, while alerting to the exhaustion of personnel.

Source: lefigaro

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