The Sélestat-Obernai Hospital Group is under pressure. With the large number of patients since Christmas, emergency rooms are saturated. An on-call medical center has been set up within the hospital grounds for smaller emergencies.
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Flu, Covid pneumonia… The emergency rooms of the Sélestat-Obernai Hospital Group (GHSO) are saturated. In a press release dated January 6, he indicated “very high tensions in the emergency room”.
“The Sélestat Obernai Hospital Group, like other Alsatian establishments, is experiencing very high tensions in the hospital emergency rooms, in particular due to a massive and continuous influx of patients since Christmas requiring hospitalization,” explains management.
She continues: “As a result, all our patient hospitalization capacities are exceeded despite the measures implemented to anticipate discharges or limit length of stay”. The hospital group is therefore asking to limit the use of emergencies and to favor care at home.
An on-call medical center has been set up within the hospital grounds for “less urgent” emergencies.
Nadia Baehr, secretary of the CFDT at GHSOFrance 3 Alsace
Nadia Baehr, secretary of the CFDT at the GHSO, hopes that the appeal launched will bear fruit. “There is no point in going to the emergency room for the flu. An on-call medical center has been set up within the hospital for “less urgent” emergencies.” she explains.
“It’s a bit like a snake biting its own tail.” advances Stéphane Cloirec, departmental secretary of the Force Ouvrière union. “We have been reacting to the situation in hospitals for years. We can no longer welcome people normally, we are asking for the reopening of closed beds and the hiring of new staff,” he emphasizes.
Large number of patients or lack of staff, emergency rooms in hospitals located in smaller towns are increasingly affected by tensions. Stéphane Coirec works at the Strasbourg Samu, he explains: “We must quickly find space for people. As Strasbourg is already saturated, we are moving closer to other nearby hospitals”.
In August 2022, the Haguenau hospital center restricted access to its emergency department on certain nights due to insufficient staff. That summer, other establishments had to close totally or partially. Faced with a shortage of doctors, Guebwiller services were closed for several weeks. The emergency rooms of Saint-Louis were unable to open for several periods in July and August 2022. A year later, in June 2023, several hundred residents mobilized to denounce the deterioration of the medical offer in the former Trois Frontières clinic, taken over and managed by the Mulhouse and South Alsace region hospital group.
