They had already issued the alert at the end of last year, denouncing “the constant deterioration of the conditions of reception of the sick and the absence of prospects for improvement”. Three months later, the emergency staff of the Strasbourg University Hospitals (HUS) made the same bitter observation: “It’s always the same speech, nothing has changed. »
Occurring in mid-March, the death of a patient admitted to the emergency room of the CHRU suddenly put the spotlight back on a service that had been overdue and saturated for many months. If she refuses to comment on the drama, just like the management of the HUS “because of the procedure in progress”, Florence Perisse, doctor in the emergency room, does not mince her words on the situation: “It is always a disaster. . It’s still crowded and we still don’t have any beds. »
“We just ask ourselves the question of how long we will hold out…”
The practitioner denounces “the lack of response from the administration”: “We have the feeling of being pawns. Let the situation hang by a thread, it does not matter to them [la direction] doesn’t change much. “Before concluding:” It’s more of a stampede than anything else. We just ask ourselves the question of how long we will hold out… ”
Antoine Pons, union representative within the National Union of Expanded Resuscitator Anesthetists Hospital Practitioners (SNPHAR-E) and resuscitator anesthesiologist at the New Civil Hospital (NHC), shares this observation: “It’s the same old story: we must always do more with less resources. »
In the corridors of the HUS, it is indicated that no communication from the management will be made “between the two rounds” of the presidential election. The hospital nevertheless continues “to make the population aware of the proper use of emergencies”, in particular on social networks, by inviting the population to seek medical advice via “alternatives” to avoid clogging up the emergency room further.