“It’s an evening of solidarity. It’s important that the state representative goes to greet those who work for others.” This Tuesday, December 31, the prefect of Pyrénées-Atlantiques made his traditional New Year’s Eve tour with emergency services and security forces. For the administration representative, Jean-Marie Girier, who arrived on November 25, 2024, this is the first.
After more social visits to the Food Bank, to the Water Point which welcomes the most precarious or to the Solidarity Eve at the exhibition center, the prefect, accompanied by his chief of staff Anne-Sophie Marcon and the deputy Josy Poueyto, s is returned to caregivers. First at the Pyrénées hospital center then at the François-Mitterrand hospital.
The prefect and MP Josy Poueyto met hospital caregivers.
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He inquired about the operation of the call control center 15, which triggers all the means necessary for patient care. Around 300 calls are received each day with a peak increase of 10 to 20% on New Year’s Eve. In the pediatric emergency room, it was mainly the flu epidemic that kept caregivers busy on December 31 during the day.
Road controls
The evening was prepared as much as possible in advance by all childcare services. In the Pau republican reconquest districts of Ousse-des-Bois and Zaragoza, prevention work with mediators and street cleaning to remove objects that could serve as roadblocks or projectiles was carried out. The objective is to avoid the urban violence that sometimes accompanies the transition to the new year.
Several dozen police officers are deployed in the department as well as more than 150 gendarmes, including 27 from the Departmental Road Safety Squadron, and 111 firefighters, indicates prefect Jean-Marie Girier. Up to 300 firefighters can be mobilized tonight if necessary. The roads are particularly scrutinized by security forces and emergency services while the consumption of alcohol and drugs often accompanies New Year’s Eve.
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