The government recognizes a “problem” in pediatric services and counts on “solidarity with city medicine” – Le Monde

The government is “aware of the problem” denounced in the open letter signed by thousands of caregivers who denounce the saturation of pediatric emergencies in hospitals and is counting “on solidarity with city medicine”, declared the minister responsible for territorial organization and health professions, Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, Saturday 22 October. More than four thousand caregivers have signed an open letter to the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, published by Le Parisien, to denounce the saturation of pediatric hospital services. The latter, particularly in Ile-de-France, are experiencing saturation linked to the bronchiolitis epidemic which is currently raging. Caregivers castigate structural difficulties, including unsuitable working conditions and care, the results of “irresponsible political inaction”. They also denounce “remote transfers” of children, sometimes to towns “several hundred kilometers” from their homes. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers Tensions in pediatric intensive care units in Ile-de-France due to lack of staff “We have to find these staff and we don’t have them” “There is a problem and we know it” , said the Minister Delegate to the Minister of Health, interviewed on Franceinfo. “We are counting on solidarity between hospitals, on solidarity with city medicine and are working on the longer opening in the evening of medical houses on duty,” she said, specifying to provide the “support” of the government. to caregivers. “The Ségur de la santé has made it possible to revalue the health professions, it was a catch-up, we know that we still have to work on the hospital, she conceded. The hospital has not been well for many, many years. Ms. Firmin Le Bodo also underlined: “Open beds, yes, but with health personnel. We have to find these personnel and we don’t have them (…). Thousands of beds have closed because we are in a model of transformation of care with the development of outpatients (…). But we were able to show the ability to reopen beds when necessary. “Also questioned on the possible risks of shortage of paracetamol, however denied by the industrialists of the sector, the minister recognized “tensions, but not of lack of molecule of paracetamol”. She invited pharmacists to “limit sales to two boxes per person” and consumers not to store drugs at home. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers “We can no longer carry out our work and treat your children properly” Le Monde