Saint Girons. Health: The Defense Committee of the Ariège Couserans Hospital Center is sounding the alarm

“My Chac, I love him and I keep him! “. It is with this title, like a cry from the heart, that the defense committee of the Ariège Couserans Hospital Center (Chax), wished to communicate to the population and elected officials, on the situation of the health establishment.
Denouncing the difficulties of access to health care and the recurrent beaded closure of some of its services, the collective, made up of involved citizens and elected officials, will organize a public meeting on June 9 at 7 p.m. in Engomer, at the city ​​hall initiative. While refuting wanting to “cry vindictiveness”, the committee nevertheless intends to expose its reasons for concern. Its members simply say they are “witnesses to the slow and progressive deterioration of access to care, culminating in the partial closure of emergencies since the winter of 2022 or the more recent ones in maternity and psychiatry”.
Same causes, same effects for the signatories of the press release.
“The causes of this situation are widely known: lack of doctors, chronic understaffing, deleterious management, loss of attractiveness of care professions…”. They also deplore that “the direction taken by the Chac seems to be following the paths of irremissible degradation”.
However, the defense committee, strong of six years of existence, does not intend to resign itself, considering that “the slow erosion of the supply of care is shared by many hospitals, thus leaving s ‘remove equitable access to healthcare for all, presented as a fundamental right’. They are concerned about “the lack of reaction and mobilization of populations and their representatives, seen as an opportunity for institutional decision-makers to let these local situations rot, until the complete disappearance of certain services”.
On the contrary, the committee wants to sound the tocsin, in the name of an “urgency to act to preserve our healthcare offer and support the caregivers mobilized for the maintenance of a real public health service”. The next public meeting should contribute to this.