On the eve of the closing of the emergency rooms of the Hôtel-Dieu, the mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë reacts. He affirms that he will not validate any plan to dismantle the service.
As of November 4, the emergency rooms of the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris will be replaced by a consultation center open 24 hours a day. This is at least the project of the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), which has been controversial since last May. If we believe the mayor (PS) of the capital, Bertrand Delanoë, this dismantling of emergencies will not take place.
“It is imperative that no premature and irreversible decision be taken which would in fact preempt the outcome of this debate. Also, all changes in the organization of patient reception which would have the consequence of substantially modifying the operation of the UAS at Hôtel-Dieu as of Monday November 4 cannot be accepted, ”underlines Bertrand Delanoë in a commentary. release this November 3.
The AP-HP wants to transfer its headquarters to the Hôtel-Dieu and make the establishment a research and teaching center. Opponents of the project, who demonstrated this 1er November, underline the saturation of other emergency services in the city. Redirecting the flow of patients to other hospitals would amount to over-saturating them.
Maintain emergencies
Contacted at the beginning of October by pourquoidocteur, the former head of the emergency department of the Hôtel-Dieu, Gérald Kierzek, reported that “the emergency department is not at the end of its rope, we are far from the situation described by the doctors. of the medical commission of the Hôtel-Dieu establishment, which described an establishment where security conditions were no longer guaranteed. He also underlined the silence of the main candidates for mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo (PS) and Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet (UMP).
The mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, seems to lean in favor of opponents of the AP-HP, even if he advocates temperance: “I will not validate any form of dismantling and I ask that a shared and socially credible project. fair and medically effective, which Parisians so badly need, be elaborated. “On the eve of the scheduled closure of the emergency room, it remains to ensure that this request is heard.
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