The emergency room of Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) operated in degraded mode this weekend. Only patients who were transported by emergency services were admitted to the Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal (CHI) Robert Ballanger, reports France 3 Ile-de-France. In question, a lack of "emergency doctors", specifies a sign on site. The hospital enforced this rule from Friday night until Monday morning at 8 a.m.

The measure will continue at night from 18 p.m. to 8 a.m. until Tuesday, May 2. The only exception was "pediatric and gynecological/obstetric emergencies," the hospital said. The remaining patients will be referred to other facilities. According to France Bleu Paris, the Aulnay-sous-Bois hospital has only half of the emergency doctors needed to operate the service.

"This lack of manpower translates into deaths," Christophe Prudhomme, spokesman for the Association of Emergency Doctors of France (Amuf) and national delegate of the CGT Health, told franceinfo on Saturday. He mentioned the death of a 19-year-old woman in Metz (Moselle) in early March and a 91-year-old man at Grenoble University Hospital (Isère) in mid-April. To relieve emergency room congestion "when in doubt we call the 15", advocates François Braun

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