Emmanuel Macron expected this afternoon for a visit to the Cherbourg hospital center
The President of the Republic is devoting his first field trip of his second five-year term to access to emergency care, one of his priorities, faced with a “systemic crisis” health sector, with overcrowded hospitals and growing medical deserts.
At the end of an exceptional European summit in Brussels dedicated to supporting Ukraine, the Head of State will head for the Cherbourg hospital center where he is expected at 4:15 p.m. with the new Minister of Health, Brigitte Burgundian.
He will meet with “all health actors” (emergency physicians, nurses, general practitioners, administration) “access to urgent and unscheduled care”tant “in hospital emergencies than in city medicine”said the Elysée.
All the lights are red in the emergency services, already strongly affected for two years by the Covid-19 pandemic, due to the shortage of caregivers. night closures, “load shedding” on other hospitals, access filtered by the SAMU: at least 120 emergency services have been forced to limit their activity or are preparing for it, alerted, on May 20, the association SAMU-Urgences de France (SUdF) .
In total, almost 20% of the approximately 620 establishments, public and private, hosting one or more emergency services are affected. Additional sign of an unprecedented crisis, 14 of the 32 largest French hospitals (CHU and CHR) are on this list. In Cherbourg, unless there is a vital emergency, only a prior call to 15 can allow admission at certain times.