A man who came to the emergency room in Langres (Haute-Marne) for stomach pains found himself taken care of in the hospital garage.
He testifies to TF1 to denounce this situation.
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“Here is my bed, the white sheet for separation, there were four of us…“Gérald Claudet is not about to forget his grueling night, which he filmed, in the emergency room of Langres hospital, in Haute-Marne. A concrete floor, no privacy, no toilets nearby, several patients sharing space… Admitted to the establishment on October 26 for intestinal inflammation, he was placed, due to lack of a free room, in the emergency garage.
“The first thing that comes to mindhe says in the TF1 news report to be found above, it's 'but what am I doing here? But what am I actually doing here? Why are I actually being put in a garage?' You have a deafening noise accompanied by a high-pitched sound coming from mechanical ventilation. It's a garage so obviously there are ventilations, and behind that, I didn't sleep a wink all night“.
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The story of Gérald Claudet, who wrote to the Ministry of Health, is not exceptional. Another video shot in the same place a few days earlier proves that the situation is recurring. The hospital, when contacted, did not respond to requests from our team, but an emergency doctor from the establishment, contacted by video, affirms that up to ten people were treated there in precarious conditions. “There were transfusions carried out in the garageassures Carina Poinsot. It's unspeakable, it's unacceptableshe continues. We have no solution, we no longer have… We are reaching the end. We cannot let the patients go“.
The Langres hospital recently closed around ten beds, and is not the only one, far from it, to experience difficulties. In France, in 2023, 5,000 beds will have been eliminated. The unions alert the public authorities. “Today, the logic of all ambulatory care and restrictions on nursing staff are reaching limits that we must quickly reverse before falling to a point of no return and a future health cataclysm.“, warns Jean-François Cybien, president of the Action Practitioners Hospital (APH) coalition in our report. Staff at Langres hospital demonstrated on October 19 to express their concern.
