The Public Assistance denies having asked the firefighters and Samu of Paris to no longer bring patients to the emergency rooms of the Hôtel-Dieu.
In the emblematic battle of the Hôtel-Dieu, it is word against word. While around thirty staff, users and elected officials have been occupying a room in this Parisian hospital since Sunday afternoon to denounce the scheduled dismantling of the emergency department of this establishment, the management of the Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris contradicts the version given yesterday by the “Hôtel-Dieu, Hôpital pour tous” support committee. “
The latter claim that they have been occupying a room in this hospital for 3 days following a management decision to redirect all patients elsewhere on Tuesday, via the firefighters and the Samu in Paris.
Contacted yesterday by the Medical Press Agency, Public Assistance denied having given these instructions. “If discussions are taking place with the Paris firefighters, on the other hand, there was no date set asking them to no longer bring patients to the Hôtel-Dieu”, explains Professor Loïc Capron, president of the AP-HP Establishment Medical Commission (CME).
Regarding the initiative taken by the management in August to move the internal medicine beds from Hôtel-Dieu to Cochin hospital, here again, Professor Capron shows his firmness, “he is out of control. question of reopening them. The establishment currently still has about 15 internal medicine beds open and it is not filling them. The internists are begging me on my knees to let them go, the work is very difficult for them, ”adds the doctor. On the merits of the case, whether or not to maintain this emergency service, the president clearly reaffirms his opposition to maintaining emergencies at Hôtel-Dieu.
And in this conflict which has lasted for more than two years, the Minister of Health tries in vain to calm things down. Asked Sunday on BFM TV, Marisol Touraine described the planned project for this establishment as “big and beautiful.” “The idea is to make it an open hospital, close to the Parisian population, which will welcome everyone as a place of first resort,” she said.
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