“The Bordeaux University Hospital denies any decision to close one of its emergency services”, assures the communication department. “In the meetings it is envisaged, there is a lack of 30% of medical resources and they want to group them together on one site, maintains Gilbert Mouden, representative of the southern social health union 33. It would probably be on Saint-André”.
He specifies that the closure of the short-term hospitalization unit is not envisaged but he fears that it is envisaged to degrade or even close the emergency reception. At the Saint-André hospital, located in the center, a stone’s throw from the Bordeaux city hall, there are between 50 and 80 visits per day to the emergency room and 150 to 170, even up to 200 at the hospital. Pellegrin, the main site.
A reorganization yes, but with the maintenance of emergencies
The management recognizes that “in anticipation of the summer period, and in a context of tension on the health system, organizational avenues are currently being worked on. Several scenarios are being studied to optimize medical resources and reorganize activity with a view to major renovation work on the Pellegrin emergency department”. But in all the avenues of reorganization studied, the management ensures that “the permanence of care, the missions of recourse, the activities of the SAMU and those of the emergencies are systematically maintained”.
If Gilbert Mouden agrees that there is no officially decided reorganization, the rumors that have been circulating for weeks have found themselves on the agenda of team meetings this Thursday. In this context where the idea would be to bring together more vital forces on the same site, the South union is worried about possible “new departures of professionals”.
The emergency structure of Saint-André “on a human scale” works well and it would be “insane” to touch it, believes Gilbert Mouden. For almost a year, regulation by the center 15 has been organized in the emergency room of Pellegrin. “This made it possible to limit a certain number of passages but not to resolve the crisis in the emergency room, comments the union representative. The problem of placing heavy and elderly patients persists, for example, and 15 is now overloaded, with very long pick-up times. »
Degrading reception in one of the emergency services will have consequences in “all peripheral private structures”, he warns. The teams of the two sites would like to quickly know the chosen scenario, to know what to expect.