Crisis in pediatric services: the executive will launch an “immediate action plan”, announces Olivier Véran

The executive will launch an “immediate action plan”, including the local activation of “white plans”, in an attempt to provide a response to the saturation of pediatric emergency services, announced the spokesperson. of the government, Olivier Véran, Sunday October 23. “The President of the Republic was arrested by a collective (…) He took note of this arrest and he immediately asked the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, so that an immediate action plan could be set up”, detailed Olivier Véran on the set of the “Grand rendez-vous” Europe 1-CNews-Les Echos. “In fact, the hospital is facing an epidemic of bronchiolitis. (…) It comes early in the year, and so we trigger where necessary the famous ‘white plans’ to recall additional staff and to have better cooperation in the territories,” he said. The Minister of Health, François Braun, must detail the measures of the plan at midday. On Friday, more than 4,000 caregivers signed an open letter to the President of the Republic, to denounce the saturation of pediatric hospital services in this context of an epidemic of bronchiolitis. In this letter, the caregivers point above all to structural difficulties, the result of “irresponsible political inaction”. “Hospitalization services are overflowing,” they warn. “It is urgent to be able to reopen beds in pediatric wards by stopping the flight of caregivers and recruiting passionate young people.” The signatories denounce in this letter their working conditions and inadequate care. They evoke a series of dysfunctions, ranging from hospitalizations of children in places that are not suitable for remote transfers, postponements of scheduled surgical interventions, or even premature discharge from hospital. So many degradations which led to “delays in care” and “the endangerment of children”. Agnès Firmin le Bodo, Minister Delegate in charge of Territorial Organization and Health Professions, was questioned on this subject on Saturday on franceinfo. “There is a problem and we know it,” she said. “We are counting on solidarity between hospitals, on solidarity with city medicine and are working on the longer opening in the evening of medical centers on duty,” she added, assuring caregivers of the “support” of the government.