According to Marisol Touraine, the doctors’ strike had no impact on the functioning of the emergency room. Some however evoke saturated services.
How are emergencies doing in this shaken end of year period? Difficult to know. Since the start of the strikes by liberal doctors, the government has been calm. “No influx to emergencies”, “no difficulty in accessing care,” insists Marisol Touraine in each of her interviews.
“Completely overwhelmed”
All in all, a very positive assessment, in the midst of a gastro epidemic, and then the majority of city doctors have lowered the curtain. This morning, the liberal emergency doctors of SOS Médecins announced their union with the strike movement. And have launched very clear counter-signals.
“The emergencies are completely overwhelmed”, affirms Dominique Ringard, president of SOS Médecins, on the website of the newspaper L’Express. They are more congested than what we say ”. A report from France 3 at Valognes hospital seems to prove him right. The strike would have had a direct impact. In the emergency room in Roubaix, Lemonde.fr even evokes “chaos”.
A limited impact of the strike
“The situation is tense, as always at this period, nuance for his part Dr. Christophe Prud’homme, spokesperson for the Association of emergency physicians of France (Amuf). This year is particularly difficult to tackle, with the triggering of the extreme cold plan and the viral epidemic. Some departments where requisitions were less, have more difficulty coping with the influx. This is the case in Picardy or Vendée, ”he explains.
However, according to the emergency doctor, the strike movement has a limited impact on the activity of emergencies. “It’s a mess, like every winter! he sums up. The overload weighs more heavily on Center 15, which receives many calls. “
Non-serious calls
In the emergency room of La Roche-sur-Yon (Vendée), it is indeed the calls that pose a problem. “Our regulation service has received 800 since the start of the day,” we explain to management. This corresponds to a very busy Sunday. But the number of emergency room admissions has not exploded. Many calls relate to minor cases, which would have come under city medicine if the practices were not closed ”.
Liberal doctors have promised to continue the movement beyond January 1.
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