UA forty-five-year-old man who suffered from inflammation of the intestines was hospitalized in the garage of Langres hospital in Haute-Marne on October 26, reports BFMTV on November 11.
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Gérard Claudet was in the region, near Dijon, on vacation when he started to feel stomach pains. He then decides to contact the Samu who directs him to the emergency room. “I asked the Samu to guide me as best as possible between the on-call doctor and the Langres emergency department. The decision was made to send me to the emergency room to carry out tests. I entered there on Saturday October 26, around 4 p.m. and the hospital team welcomed me with the greatest care,” explains the man. He then spent one night there and had to be hospitalized for several days.
After twenty-four hours, the staff told him that he had to leave. “At one o’clock in the morning, someone came to pick me up and they told me ‘we have to move you’,” says Gérard Claudet. “Okay, where am I going?” How is it going? » he asks. “Look, in a garage. When we no longer have space here, it's not complicated: we open the garage and we put patients there,” an employee reportedly responded.
Without toilet or shower
Gérard Claudet took several photos of the place where we see hospital beds in a garage. “I found myself relegated to a place with an uncovered and stained raw concrete floor, without toilets or showers, except in the adjoining central corridor. Beds are placed there as patients arrive, separated by screens covered with a hospital sheet! » the man protests. According to this forty-year-old, who shared the room with four other people, the ventilation made a loud noise. “I am I don’t know where. In times of war, in a place where the sick are placed? I don’t really know where we are, but in any case not in a French hospital,” he laments.
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After a night in this room, he decides to shorten his hospitalization and return home. “I saw the doctor who could only tell me that he understood and gave me a prescription. But he prescribed me pills which caused intestinal complications and which are much less effective than the infusions! » he affirms.
It was then that he wrote a letter to the regional health agency, the Langres hospital and the Ministry of Health. “I asked in this letter for a reasoned return and I specify that I invite these decision-makers to come and spend a night with me in this garage”, quips Gérard Claudet who has, to date, not received a response.
