due to lack of space in the emergency room, he found himself installed in the hospital garage

Suffering from inflammation of the intestines, Gérard Claudet went to the emergency room of Langres hospital, in Haute-Marne. Twenty-four hours after his arrival, he was transferred to a room set up in the establishment's garage, which was saturated at the end of October.

Gérard Claudet still can't believe it. This father was on vacation in Haute-Marne when he felt pain in his stomach: inflammation of the intestines. Directed by the Samu, he went on Saturday October 26 to the emergency room of Langres hospital, about sixty kilometers north of Dijon, and spent the first night there.

But 24 hours after his arrival, the staff explained to him that he could not stay. However, his condition requires hospitalization for several days.

During the night from Sunday to Monday, “at one o'clock in the morning, they came to pick me up and they told me 'we have to move you'”, recalls Gérard Claudet. “Okay, where am I going? How's it going?” he asks.

“Listen, in a garage. When we have more space here, it’s not complicated: we open the garage and we put patients there,” the staff would have responded.

He calls on the Minister of Health

In the images sent by the father to BFMTV, we can see several beds in a garage, one near the door. According to Gérard Claudet's account, the noise from the ventilation in the room was deafening. Four people were in this converted triage room.

“I am I don't know where. In times of war, in a place where they put the sick? I don't really know where we are, but in any case not in a French hospital”, protests Gérard Claudet at our microphone.

Exasperated, he asks to go home the next day. And decides to write to the Regional Health Agency, the Langres hospital center and the Ministry of Health. “In this letter I asked for reasoned feedback and I specify that I invite these decision-makers to come and spend a night with me in this garage.”

To date, his letter has remained unanswered. Contacted by telephone and email, neither the Regional Health Agency nor the hospital center responded to BFMTV.