2023-04-23 04:00:36
It is a very strong mobilization for a city of about 8,000 inhabitants. Some 2,000 people, according to the gendarmerie, demonstrated again on Saturday afternoon in Feurs, in the Loire department, against the closure of the emergency department of the hospital in this city in early April.
The event constitutes “an excellent result for the camp of those who want to maintain this emergency service”, estimated Dr Olivier Nicolas, president of the Defense and Support Committee of the Forez Hospital Center (CHF) in Feurs, which has organized several demonstrations for a month.
A meeting with François Braun requested
At the end of this new gathering, which lasted nearly three hours according to the gendarmerie, the practitioner explained that “the health security of an entire territory requires the reopening as soon as possible of the emergency service”, of the city . He also invited the elected officials of the territory to request a meeting with the Minister of Health François Braun. For her part, Marianne Darfeuille, mayor of Feurs, demanded this week the reopening of emergencies in her city “as soon as the number of emergency workers is reconstituted”.
The director of the CHF, Edmond Mackowiak, for his part justifies the closure of the service by the fact that “half of the 10 emergency doctors in Feurs are temporary workers who do not accept the ceiling on their remuneration imposed by the Rist law which came into force. effective April 3.
Faced with the fait accompli of this closure, an extraordinary supervisory board of the CHF, which has another establishment in Montbrison, had voted on the same April 3 “a motion providing for the return to four emergency lines – three in Montbrison and one in Feurs – as soon as the conditions for reopening are met, without opposition from the Regional Health Agency”, reported Claude Mondésert, health assistant for the town of Feurs and vice-president of the COS of the CHF.
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