Monday, November 4, the emergency department of the Paris hospital will be replaced by a 24-hour consultation service. The white coats remain mobilized.
They were about forty people Friday, November 1 to demonstrate in front of the Pantheon in Paris. Doctors, nurses, these white coats are opposed to the closure of the emergency rooms of the Hotel-Dieu. To express the danger that this closure represents in their eyes, they mimed the burial of a patient who would not have been taken care of in time by the hospital services.
Opponents of the project of the management of Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris believe that the reorientation of the flow of patients will cause the ” supersaturation ” Parisian emergency services. ” Symbolic death is not just empty words. All studies show: the longer we wait in the emergency room, the more we die “, told the World the emergency physician Gérald Kierziek, spearhead of the opposition.
The emergency doctors at the Hotel-Dieu are particularly upset against Marisol Touraine, the Minister of Health who had undertaken in July 2013 to delay the closure of the emergency rooms of the Parisian hospital of the Hôtel-Dieu. An announcement ineffective since the emergencies of the Hôtel-Dieu will be replaced Monday, November 4 by a 24-hour consultation service, as planned. Patients transported by firefighters will be referred to other hospitals while those who come on their own will be taken care of by doctors.
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