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"I'm afraid of doing something stupid and causing the death of a child": why Montluçon loses its last pediatrician

2022-09-18T18:31:31.434Z


STORY - The Montluçon pediatric service is threatened after the resignation of the last pediatrician on November 1. 200,000 people are affected.


It was with a heavy heart that Dr. Hiba Trraf, 31, made his decision.

On October 31, the head of the pediatrics department will officially return her blouse and leave the Montluçon hospital center, for which she has worked for five years.

A hard but necessary choice, according to her: she does not want to live with the death of a child on her conscience.

If this idea of ​​committing the irreparable haunts her, it is above all because she considers her workload untenable.

Since the beginning of the year, she has been the only registered doctor in the pediatrics department.

How did we get here ?

It all started in 2017. The young pediatrician from Clermont, then 26 years old, had just obtained her thesis.

She then decides to leave to practice in Montluçon in the pediatric department.

What particularly attracts her are the ambivalent activities offered to her: she will have the possibility of doing emergencies, neonates, maternity, child care, which the…

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Source: lefigaro

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