“We cannot continue to record people dying because a correct diagnosis was not made or they did not receive the proper care,” said 50-year-old Gilles Averus, mayor of Satoru, indignantly.
Avoiding the Emergency Department in his city’s public hospital is recommended by a mayor in France, pointing out that patients are dying because they do not receive the required care.
In an e-mail to the health authorities, which was sent on March 7 and was recently revealed in the French press, Gilles Averus, mayor of Satoru, emphasizes that the collapse of public hospital care is unprecedented.
“We cannot continue to record people dying because they were not properly diagnosed or did not receive proper care,” the 50-year-old mayor of Satoru stressed indignantly.
He did not hesitate to recommend that citizens avoid the Emergency Department in their city’s public hospital, preferring to go to the one in Isoudan (about 30 minutes away by car) or Limoges (1 hour and 10 minutes, respectively) , as reported by the newspaper La Nouvelle République.
The regional directorate of Public Health (ARS) reacted by citing organizational problems such as “difficulties in recruiting staff” due to a “less attractive area for health professionals” as well as shortcomings of the national health system.
General director Clara de Boer told the French News Agency (AFP) that we cannot expect a hospital to compensate for the malfunctions of the national health system. He also referred to social problems that strain hospital capacity, such as cases of the elderly “being sent to hospital because they are at the end of their lives”.
Source :Skai
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