France: Mayor of Satoru Asks Citizens to Avoid City Hospital · Global Voices

Incredible incident with the mayor of Satoru recommending citizens to avoid the city hospital as patients say they die because they do not accept the necessary care. In an e-mail to health authorities for the hospital in his city, which was sent on March 7 and recently revealed to the media in France, Gill Averus, mayor of Satoru, underlines that there is no precedent for the collapse of public hospital care. “We cannot continue to record people who die because they were not properly diagnosed or received proper care,” the 50-year-old mayor of Satoru stressed. He even did not hesitate to recommend to the citizens to avoid the Emergency Department in their city’s public hospital, preferring to go to that of Isudan city (which is about 30 minutes by car) or Limoz (1 hour and 10 minutes, respectively), as broadcast by La Nouvelle République. The Regional Public Health Directorate (ARS) reacted by citing organizational problems such as “difficulties in staff recruitment” due to “minorly attractive area for health professionals”, as well as deficiencies in the national health system. General Director Clara de Bohr stressed at the French News Agency (AFP) that we cannot expect a hospital to compensate for the malfunctions of the national health system. He also referred to social problems that aggravate hospital endurance, such as cases of elderly people who “send them to hospital because they are at the end of their lives”.