Question 17049 — health establishments

Summary

Ms. Annie Genevard alerts the Minister of Solidarity and Health about the Pontarlier emergency department. Since 2011, this service has recorded a 30% increase in its activity, with patients coming from an increasingly large geographic area, a rural sector and located in mountain areas where transport conditions can sometimes be very difficult. The situation is particularly tense due in particular to a lack of unsuitable personnel and premises. The staff is currently mobilizing to ensure that this service operates in decent conditions both for themselves, the emergency care staff, the mobile emergency and resuscitation service and the very short-term hospital unit, as well as for the quality of care and patient safety. It recalls the provisions in force resulting from the law of December 28, 2016 on modernization, development and protection of mountain territories and in particular its article 18 which provides that “the regional health plan includes, where appropriate, a section devoted to the specific health needs of populations in mountain areas, particularly in terms of access to urgent care and evacuation of injured people on ski slopes, and taking into account the geographical, demographic and seasonal specificities of these territories”, as well as its article 23 relating to access to care within reasonable time limits which provides that the State may authorize, on an experimental basis, that "the regional health project endeavors to guarantee the populations access by land to a general medicine service, to a medical emergency service as well as to a maternity ward within reasonable time periods not likely to endanger the physical integrity of the patient due to a clearly too long transport time. ". Therefore, the MP alerts the Minister so that immediate measures can be taken to strengthen the organization of this center, particularly at night.

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