Some 2,000 people, according to the gendarmerie, demonstrated again this Saturday afternoon in Feurs (Loire) against the closure of the emergency department of the hospital in this city at the beginning of April.
This exceptional mobilization for a city of about 8,000 inhabitants constitutes “an excellent result for the camp of those who want to maintain this emergency service”, declared Dr. Olivier Nicolas, president of the Defense and Support Committee of the Forez Hospital Center in Feurs, who has organized several demonstrations for a month.
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At the end of this new mobilization, which lasted about three hours according to the gendarmerie, the practitioner explained that “the health security of an entire territory requires the reopening of the emergency service as soon as possible” of the city.
Olivier Nicolas also invited the territory’s elected officials to request a meeting with the Minister of Health, François Braun. For her part, Marianne Darfeuille, mayor of Feurs, demanded this week in a press release the reopening of emergencies in her city “as soon as the number of emergency workers is reconstituted.”
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The director of the CHF, Edmond Mackowiak, justifies the firmness of the service by saying that “the moitié des 10 médecins des urgencies de Feurs are des intérimaires qui n’acceptent pas le plafonnement de leur rémunération imposed par la loi Rist entrée en vigueur le 3 April”.
Faced with the fait accompli of this closure, an extraordinary supervisory board of the Center hospitalier du Forez, which has another establishment in Montbrison, had voted on April 3 “a motion that provided for the return of four emergency lines – three in Montbrison and one in Feurs, as soon as the conditions for reopening are met, without the opposition of the Regional Health Agency,” reported Claude Mondésert, health assistant for the city of Feurs and vice president of the COS of the CHF.
Source: BFM TV
