The Manifesto and the Émile-Borel collective are at the same time calling on the population to demonstrate this Monday, January 6 at 9 a.m. in front of the Saint-Affrique hospital.
Didier Jaffre, director general of the Occitanie Regional Health Agency (ARS), is coming this Monday, January 6 to Saint-Affrique for a “new time for discussion and consultation with stakeholders” of the hospital center, including the Émile-Borel collective, and all institutional decision-makers, local elected officials and representatives of health stakeholders.
This is the announcement made by the ARS on December 21 in Saint-Affrique to reaffirm “the challenges and next steps of the future common hospital of South Aveyron, as well as the methods of intermediary organization of the provision of care in this territory.“
According to Mayor Sébastien David, also president of the hospital's supervisory board, the meeting will take place at 9:30 a.m. at the Richard-Sainct multipurpose space with in particular five to ten people from the Manifesto for the Defense of Hospitals and Maternity Units in the South Aveyron and as many from the Émile-Borel collective. For its part, the Manifesto and the collective indicate to expect Didier Jaffre this same Monday, but at 9 a.m. at the hospital center. The two entities invite the population to come and demonstrate at the hospital.
“Expected dialogue”
Finally where will the meeting take place? “The gathering of residents, caregivers (staff and doctors) and the mayor of Saint-Affrique has finally decided the director of the ARS to come and meet their representatives to answer the serious questions asked”declare the Manifesto and the collective.
And to quote: “reductions in reception capacities in medicine and geriatrics, access to emergencies, abandonment of promised renovations, applicant doctors not hired, practicing doctors pushed to leave, difficulties in implementing reopening projects or new care while beds are available, debt multiplied by five when the number of beds is divided by three, the number of directors multiplied by nine, the costs of the common hospital which weigh on the finances of Saint-Affrique, so many questions on which a dialogue with the director of the ARS is expected.”
Furthermore, Monday evening, at 8 p.m., at the Richard-Sainct multipurpose space, the mayor, the Manifesto and the collective are organizing a public meeting to report on the meeting with the director of the ARS, but also to “discuss upcoming mobilizations and dialogues.“
