A patient died in the emergency department of Strasbourg University Hospital after a very long wait, Le Parisien reported Tuesday, September 13. «Any death in our institution remains a difficult situation for the entire hospital community,» the management insists.
The patient was 81 years old and spent "about twenty hours on a stretcher" before he was found dead during his shift.
On Tuesday, September 13, the French union center sent a letter to its successor, François Braun, to warn him of the "deteriorating quality of care and the detrimental functioning of the emergency department". This death came 36 hours after union center representatives sounded the alarm, saying that the emergency department in Strasbourg was overloaded for the umpteenth time.