Nicolas Daudé, le directeur de la clinique Saint-Privat, cherche des médecins urgentistes de toute urgence pour rouvrir son service 24 h sur 24. J.-P A. – Midi Libre
Due to a lack of doctors, the Saint-Privat clinic in Boujan-sur-Libron will close its emergency room on Monday, December 16 and at least until the end of the year, starting at 10 p.m. The Béziers hospital will ensure continuity of nighttime care and will be the only establishment for the entire west of the department. An influx of patients that is taken into account to be ready from this Monday.
The year ended rather well for the Saint-Privat clinic in Boujan-sur-Libron, which was awarded a very nice 40th place in the ranking of the best clinics in France. This ranking was done among 1,400 establishments and took into account a great many criteria. Several specialties of the Béziers clinic are in the top 10 care.
Shortage of emergency physicians
But this ranking was thwarted by the difficulties encountered by all private establishments: the recruitment of emergency physicians. As a result, the Saint-Privat emergency room will only operate from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., every day.
“We are currently experiencing the departure of several replacement emergency doctors, which is reducing the size of our team,” confirms the director of Saint-Privat, Nicolas Daudé. We are actively looking for new practitioners to allow a stabilization of our activity. We are listening to applications from general practitioners or emergency physicians interested in doing shifts in our structure. These difficulties oblige us to set up an adapted organization, from this Monday, December 16, by opening the service every day, including weekends, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. This will allow us to maintain an optimal organizational mode.”
The department will therefore be closed from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. and its access regulated a few hours before, in order to be certain that no patient remains waiting to be treated at closing time. The clinic's specialists on call will remain reachable by the hospital's emergency doctors or after a call to the 15 center. “This is to take care of patients who concern them, particularly in urology where our doctors provide continuous care for the entire territory of West Hérault.”
Béziers hospital supports it
The clinic director hopes to find a lasting solution as soon as possible to reopen the emergency room of his establishment 24 hours a day. At Béziers hospital, on which the entire medical burden will fall, they assure that they are ready. “We have anticipated and we are in place to accommodate all emergencies in the territory. There is no fear on this point. We are organized for that. On the other hand, it will be necessary for subjects without emergencies to go themselves to the medical center which is open in Béziers every day until midnight. In case of doubt, it will be necessary not to hesitate to contact the regulators of the 15 center so that the only emergencies are really accommodated in the services of the Béziers hospital.”
Prioritize emergencies
Nadège Clauss-Souquet, the head of the emergency department at the Béziers hospital, confirms that the public institution will cope. “As of Monday, December 16, we will be the only nighttime recourse in western Hérault. As a public service, we have organized ourselves, we will call on the medical center, but also the 15 center. We will force people to go through them so as not to saturate the service in order to have a better distribution of patients. This already works rather well. But we must avoid too large a flow that would generate waits and perhaps tensions. We will also have to explain why the wait and of course, as we already do, why there is a prioritization of care. We will give priority, as is already the case, to the most serious pathologies. Hence the interest in moving towards to the medical center if there is no real emergency.”
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