2023-11-27 08:00:07
In the spring, between now and summer, at the start of the school year, before All Saints’ Day… Promised by the government during the winter of 2022-2023, when a triple epidemic (flu, Covid-19 and bronchiolitis) was hitting hard Despite the hospital, the Pediatric Conference has continued to be postponed ever since. This major consultation was intended to respond to the cries of alarm launched by thousands of pediatric caregivers to denounce a situation “untenable” and “children in daily danger”and call for urgent measures.
One year later, a new commitment from the Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau, has just been made to the stakeholders, received on Friday November 24, while pediatric hospital services are once again under pressure: this meeting should have will take place in January 2024, it is reported in the ranks of the participants. “We are a year later, and the problems highlighted during this extraordinary crisis are far from being resolved”, notes Professor Christèle Gras-Le Guen, pediatrician at Nantes University Hospital and one of the leaders of these Conferences, who welcomes an exchange “completely positive” with the minister.
The preparatory work for the Conference was completed several months ago, with 2,000 contributions submitted online, hundreds of experts interviewed, and 300 to 400 proposals included in a report “to improve the health of the child” still confidential, submitted to the Minister of Health during the summer.
“We didn’t expect much”
On the ground, pressure is mounting again in hospitals. If winter epidemics remain out of proportion with those of winter 2022-2023, many establishments are “entered the hard part” In recent days, we hear from the ranks of pediatricians, particularly in Ile-de-France, while bronchiolitis remains in an ascending phase.
Three transfers of infants from Ile-de-France to other regions had to take place during the week of November 20 – two to Amiens, one to Dijon – due to lack of space in pediatric intensive care units. The regional health agency records six children in total who have had to be transferred outside of Ile-de-France since mid-October. “Five were because interregional care made it possible to stay closer to where the families live”she specifies.
In the ranks of professionals mobilized in 2022 within the Pediatric Collective, the tone remains disillusioned. “We didn’t expect much from these Conferences, and that’s what happened, regrets Mélodie Aubart, neuropediatrician at the Necker-Enfants Malades hospital (Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris), who coordinated the open letter to the President of the Republic signed by 10,000 caregivers. As long as the consequences for children are not visible, nothing happens. » However, the situation has continued to deteriorate, according to her: “Child care is in a dire state. The problem is not bronchiolitis, it is the lack of beds everywhere and now all the time, such is the glaring lack of caregivers. And it is the children who pay the price. »
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