The action in defense of the emergency service of the city of Lannion was carried out by residents of the French department of Côte-d’Armor in Brittany, writes Ouest France on January 13.
On Saturday, January 13, the streets of Lannion were filled with people who had come to the city from all over the Côte d’Armor department to demonstrate against the nightly closure of the emergency department of the local hospital. On Thursday, January 11, the department’s Territorial Hospital Team (GHT) adopted a resolution confirming the possibility of closing the hospital.
According to the unions, 3,000 protesters participated in the protest. The starting point of the protesters was the square in front of the town hall. “”No” to the nighttime emergency ordinance! “—this slogan became the leitmotiv of the action.
The much criticized regulations will come into force in March and will remain in force for at least years. This means that from this date, at night, from 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 a.m. the next day, you must call 15 (the ambulance number) before any visit to the Lannion Emergency Service. The move comes amid a shortage of emergency doctors, partly due to the Rist Law (la loi Rist), which limits temporary medical work.
A decree that will come into force from March until at least the summer. For the specific service, this means that, from that date on, you will have to call 15 (Samu) before any visit to the emergency room. Lanyon will become the norm in the evening, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. the next day. The move comes amid a shortage of emergency doctors, in part due to the Rist law (la loi Rist), which limits doctors’ ability to work in temporary positions (l’intérim Médical).
Those who gathered for the demonstration spoke of the continuing degradation of health care in the department. “We have already experienced a summer marked by sudden closures of emergency departments, sometimes with dramatic consequences. How can we foresee a measure of this type in our territory? “- Mireille, who came from Tréguier, is outraged.
The same observation applies to Christina, who worked for thirty years as a nurse in the operating room of a city hospital. She bitterly observes the disintegration of public services: “The hospital was the one that suffered the most from these measures. When he worked there, sometimes they told us: “You’ll see, in a few years everything is going to collapse.” But we didn’t believe it. Now we are here “.
For Patrick, originally from Saint-Que-Perrot, “This is a sign that hospitals are becoming profit centers. Little by little we are losing sight of the main meaning of this public service “.
The sixty-year-old man compares this emergency management with the crisis that is shaking the department’s nursing homes: “How can we project ourselves into an area where all services for seniors are deteriorating at a rapid rate? By protecting the hospital, we protect the attractiveness of the territory.”.
In the procession, dozens of tricolor scarves mark the presence of the region’s elected officials. Among them are Paul Le Bihan, mayor of Lannion, Gervais Ego, president of the community of Lannion-Trégor, as well as the mayors of Tréguier, Ploulec, Trelevern, Saint-Que-Perrot…
Everyone is against the closure of the emergency service, a sign of the degradation of the territory. “We are concerned about the lack of development prospects”says Paul Le Bihan. “We can understand that there are temporary difficulties, but this regulation, scheduled until the summer, could well last longer. What will happen to the Lanyon hospital then? »
Source: Rossa Primavera
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