Emergency staff at Montpellier University Hospital demonstrate in front of the general management

Une centaine d'agents devant le CHU, ce mardi 14 janvier. ML – GR

Before a meeting with the general management of the CHU, the unions called for a mobilization to denounce the critical situation of the emergency rooms, regularly overwhelmed by the influx of patients, in recent weeks.

The warning signals are coming one after another in the emergency department of the CHU, which has been regularly overwhelmed in recent weeks. The CGT had filed a report of “serious and imminent danger” last week. Although the “white plan” system was not triggered by the CHU, measures have helped to reduce the pressure: reopening of downstream beds, provision of pediatric boxes, reinforcement of a nursing assistant pair…

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“Insufficient”, considers FO, which does not want to wait until 2028 and the delivery of the new emergency premises to see the situation improve. The unions obtained a meeting with the general management of the CHU, this Tuesday, January 14, at 10 a.m. Just before, a hundred agents demonstrated in front of the André-Bénech administrative building.

“180 visits per day to the emergency room”

“We sounded the alarm several times because in 2024, there were regularly 180 visits per day to the emergency room, which is totally disproportionate”, underlines Philippe Peretti, assistant secretary of the CGT-CHU. “Colleagues were at the end of their rope. We even had a few deaths in the emergency room”.

“There are organizational problems at the CHU, there is a lack of boxes and downstream beds. We lack visibility on the beds available in the establishment. There is also the problem of private clinics that are also refusing patients. This issue of emergencies deserves a global reflection”.

“Staff are at the end of their rope”

“We need premises adapted to emergencies before 2028, estimates Jérôme Bencivengo, assistant secretary of FO-CHU. Putting in more staff will not solve the needs if we lack downstream beds.”

“The fundamental problem is that the population of the territory has increased enormously since 1984 while the capacity of emergency services has hardly changed. Today, we receive many people over 65 who live at home and who do not benefit from any care. The staff are really exhausted.”

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