Question 16421 — health establishments

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Mr. Alexandre Allegret-Pilot draws the attention of the Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and People with Disabilities to the severe disruptions to the outpatient surgery service at the Alès-Cévennes hospital center (Gard). According to information made public on June 23, 2026, the outpatient surgery department of this establishment, which serves the living area of ​​Alès and the Cévennes, is today experiencing serious difficulties. Nursing staff indicated two causes: a lack of staff and a lack of space. This situation comes even though admissions have doubled in one year, a sign of a rapidly growing need for care in this territory. This situation is all the more worrying given that the development of ambulatory surgery has been, for more than a decade, a stated priority for public authorities and health insurance, presented both as progress for patients and as an efficiency lever for social accounts. That a local public establishment is forced to completely suspend this activity, due to lack of human and material resources, while demand is growing strongly, illustrates the growing gap between the objectives proclaimed at the national level and the actual capacities of field hospitals. THE consequences for residents are immediate: extension of treatment times, postponement of interventions and de facto orientation towards more distant establishments or towards the private sector, to the detriment of equal access to care. In a Cévennes region already weakened by the tensions of medical demography, such a breakdown in public healthcare provision further weakens the confidence of residents in their hospital. He therefore asks him to kindly inform him of the precise state of the situation as brought to the attention of the Occitanie regional health agency; the emergency measures that the Government intends to mobilize, both in terms of personnel and premises, to enable the effective resumption of outpatient surgery activity in Alès; the timetable within which this recovery can be guaranteed to patients; and more largely, the means that the Government intends to put in relation to its objective of developing ambulatory surgery, so that this does not result, on the ground, in a deterioration of access to care.

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