Emergencies : the university hospital of Clermont-Ferrand saturates

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Published the 03.10.2017 at 10: 09

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The unions and the management of the hospital of Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) have apparently not experienced the same the evening of Friday, September 29. “The continuity of public service has been ensured,” says the second in a press release, while some service officials and trade unions report that CHU was forced to divest itself of other institutions, according to the information of The Mountain.

“As a result of numerous arrivals of the sick are between 18: 30 and 21: 30 to the emergency room adults, adding to the many sick that are already present within the er in the end of the day, the care of patients within the emergency department has been very strongly increased “, recognizes nevertheless the direction.

Fewer doctors, more patients

The emergency department of the CHU of Clermont saturate for several months or even several years. Of the premises unsuitable, too small, not enough to cope with the gradual increase of the influx. The doctors are also less numerous.

Since the month of September, the situation worsened after the departure of the chief doctor of emergencies of Riom, a small town of the urban area of Clermont-Ferrand. Its inhabitants and those of nearby fall back on the CHU, and thereby swell the crowd for emergencies that were clearly not in need of a revival of activity.

An expansion project that drags

To cope with the problem, the direction of CHU trying to respond. “Currently, the emergency departments are gridlocked, acknowledged a few weeks ago, Didier Hoeltgen, director of the hospital. This is why we have opened a service of extra medicine on November 2, 2016, which is called the Unit medical-surgical post-emergency, with 28 additional beds to meet the needs of emergency physicians. “

A measure that does not seem to suffice. The er doctor eagerly await the completion of an expansion project that has been delayed. They will have to take their evil in patience, at least three years. The delivery is not expected before the end of the year 2020.