due to lack of space, a patient is treated in the garage of a hospital in Haute-Marne

Although the situation may seem unprecedented, it is nevertheless rather common. In this hospital in Langres, in Haute-Marne, this is not the first time that patients have complained of poor care. On Saturday October 26, 2024, Gérald Claudet was admitted to the emergency room for inflammation of the intestines before being hospitalized. If his convalescence started normally, in one of the hospital rooms, the patient was quickly transferred… to the ambulance garage. Four people installed in the same place, white sheets as a partition, no toilets nearby and a deafening noise… Gérald Claudet testifies in the France 2 newspaper that he did not “shut a wink all night”.

Helpless in the face of the situation, Gérald Claudet first begins by asking himself: “But what am I doing here? But what am I actually doing here in concrete terms? Why are I being put in a garage ?” Then, despite an obvious need for care, he finally decided to leave the area. “You can well imagine the anger that is rising internally,” he told journalists from France 2, still shocked by the treatment reserved for him and his “roommates”. “You don’t understand why we park you in this garage,” he then laments. Indeed, this space is generally intended for ambulances and other medical vehicles. How is it that the Langres hospital can accommodate patients there? “There are surgical doctors who are waiting, (…)

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