Hospitalized in Paris with bronchiolitis, Dylan’s son had to be transferred on Monday night more than 200 kilometers from home. “The doctor came to see me around four in the morning and told me that my son had to be transferred. I asked him – transferred where? – and he told me – To Lille”, recalls this 29-year-old father, who considers The incomprehensible decision: the son was only 20 days old when he was transferred to another hospital.
“I began to think about the danger that transportation represents for a baby… even for a hospitalized adult… I asked the doctors to transfer him by helicopter, so that it would be much faster, so that my son would suffer as little as possible… but no, they took him by ambulance,” he describes.
With the emergencies paralyzed, the hospitals decided to activate the saturation mechanism at level 2 and postpone appointments and surgeries. The situation worsens with the arrival of the annual flu epidemic, as well as a probable ninth wave of Covid-19, says pediatrician Rémi Salomon, president of the Paris Hospitals medical commission.
According to the pediatrician, in the last week 188 patients were treated in the corridors due to lack of beds in hospitals. The pediatrician considers the situation serious: “We see that too many patients arrive and we have few means to receive them. We don’t have enough doctors and nurses to ensure good follow-up can be done. have the means to deal with this situation. All of this creates a lot of stress for doctors, who know they can’t do their job properly.”
The Minister of Health, François Braun, has announced an increase in the State Budget of 543 million euros so that hospitals can deal with the successive crises that affect the health sector.
“I can assure you that we have made all our resources available to face this new crisis and this bronchiolitis epidemic in the last ten years,” declared the Minister of Health.
The Minister of Health guarantees that the Government’s mission will be to review the structure of the hospitals: “Urgent measures have been taken. The Government has provided additional financial means to deal with these difficulties. But I agree with you when you say that the problem of our public hospital and our health system is structural,” said the head of the Health portfolio.
This hospital crisis occurs in a context in which the number of available beds has been decreasing each year and in which some services need to incorporate more doctors and nurses.
Several organizations of pediatricians and infectologists warn of the lack of amoxicillin, one of the most widely used antibiotics in children, which could lead to a major public health crisis in the coming days.
Source: TSF
