The Hôtel-Dieu Support Committee, which is fighting against the closure of emergencies, wants to challenge the executive and candidates for mayor of Paris.
Hôtel-Dieu, the battle continues! the Support committee emergencies of this Parisian hospital, which is fighting against the closure of this service, was received Tuesday evening at the Ministry of Health, said the office of Marisol Touraine. “An unsuccessful meeting”, according to Dr. Gérald Kierzek, former head of the Smur of the Hôtel-Dieu, dismissed from his post in July by the direction of Public Assistance (AP-HP).
According to this emergency doctor, Marisol Touraine, Minister of Health, persists and continues to support the modernization project of the Hôtel-Dieu, which plans to make it “the hospital of the 21st century”. In other words, a hospital without a bed, but with medicine focused on prevention, screening and health education. A “low-cost” establishment, comment its detractors. Contacted by why actor, the doctor Gérald Kierzek explains that he will continue his fight for Parisian emergencies “which are already in a perilous situation. “
The closure of the Smur of the Hôtel-Dieu would endanger the Parisian emergencies
According to Dr Gérald Kierzek, the hospital emergency rooms continue to function normally, with 120 patients received per day. “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 who described an establishment where the security conditions did not exist. were more assured, ”he says.
In addition, for this doctor, the Public Assistance project which aims to remove beds risks further clogging up the other emergency services in the capital, which are already in the red. The ex-emergency physician recalls, in this regard, an episode that recently occurred at the Pitié-Salpêtrière. Ten days ago, this hospital received, in fact, 300 patients, which is four times more than its capacity.
Listen to Dr Gérald Kierzek, ex-manager of the Smur of the Hôtel-Dieu, dismissed from his post: ” You are currently waiting more than 10 hours in the Paris emergency services. That of the Lariboisière Hospital is already largely saturated…. “
In an attempt to save this emergency department, the “Hôtel-Dieu, Hôpital pour tous” committee wishes to challenge Parisians on the markets, on the occasion of the Paris municipal elections in 2014. But Dr Gérald Kierzek was not there he intention to stop there, politicians will also have their say. He would like to know, for example, why Anne Hidalgo, PS candidate for mayor of Paris, did not sign the hospital pact which clearly indicates that emergencies must be maintained in the heart of the capital with hospital beds.
In addition, the committee also wishes to go to all the campaign meetings of the two main candidates for mayor of Paris (Anne Hidalgo for the PS, and Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet for the UMP), in order to make their voices heard.
Finally, the emergency physician confides that the trade unionists who are members of the collective intend to meet François Hollande but also Jean-Marc Ayrault, who will have to “take a position on this file which is a major issue for the health of Parisians”, he concludes. .
Listen to Dr Gérald Kierzek, ex-manager of the Smur of the Hôtel-Dieu, dismissed from his post: ” The CGT will challenge the President since the Minister of Health does not understand the perilous situation in which the Parisians risk finding themselves... “
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