French hospitals are constantly sounding the alarm: they are running out of space. Gérard Claudet, hospitalized in the emergency room of Langres hospital, in Haute-Marne, while he was on vacation at the end of October, paid the price. According to BFMTV, the patient who suffered from intestinal inflammation was transferred to the garage of the health establishment, 24 hours after his admission, on October 27.
When the man asks where he is being taken, the caregivers answer “In a garage. When we have more space here, it’s not complicated: we open the garage and we put patients there,” he tells our colleagues. In the images he sent to the channel, four people (including him) are present in the converted garage.
Not at the level of a “French hospital”
“I am I don’t know where. In times of war, in a place where the sick are placed? I don’t really know where we are, but in any case not in a French hospital,” said the patient who asked to go home the next day, exhausted by the noise of the ventilation and the conditions. hospitalization.
In 2023, nearly 4,900 full hospitalization beds will have been eliminated. According to the statistical department of social ministries (Drees), the supply has decreased by 10.5% in ten years.