Several emergency services are currently closed in France, François Braun, the health minister, acknowledged on Wednesday, who until then had refused to talk about such a situation in a context of concerns about the capacity of hospitals to spend the summer.
“In terms of closures, that is, an emergency service that would no longer receive anyone, before July there were four, today there are eight,” declared François Braun on RTL.
“You have to be right”
In a survey published in early August, the Samu-Urgences France association, which was chaired by François Braun himself just before joining the Government, reported that multiple emergency services had closed for several days in July.
This survey is part of a context of concern among caregivers about the ability of hospitals to spend the summer, in a context of lack of beds and staff. If the minister finally acknowledged the existence of closures, he nonetheless put their consequences into perspective.
Among the eight closed establishments, a figure also much lower than that reported by professionals, “there are four clinics with public emergency services nearby,” François Braun qualifies. “You have to keep reason.”
The Minister also reiterated that all parcels of French territory continued to have “vital emergency” services, if necessary through Samu mobile teams.
Source: BFM TV
