A report by the Territorial Hospital Group (GHT), recommends closing Guingamp's maternity hospital (Cotes-d'Armor). This is in response to a "extremely tense", medical demographic. 'Armour.
Bruno Rossetti's report sought to redefine healthcare in the north-west region of Cotes-d'Armor. This is an area where "population health indicators" are not favorable and where establishments face recruitment difficulties for paramedical staff and doctors.
The report suggests that the hospitals of Saint-Brieuc and Guingamp be maintained, as well as strengthening each institution's specialization.
He recommends that all emergency services and SMUR be kept available "24 hours a days and seven days a week" and that he group in Lannion or Saint-Brieuc both the 500 annual Guingamp deliveries and conventional surgery. As part of the Segur plan, this reorganization will be accompanied with an investment of 238 millions euros to modernize Lannion and rebuild Guingamp hospitals.
The hospital group says this scenario "best responds" to future demographic constraints and guarantees a fine mesh of territory with primary care within 30 minutes at any location in the territory.
Helene Guichaoua is the head of Guingamp's maternity ward. She said that there was nothing new and that closure was not something she had anticipated before the opening of Guingamp's new hospital center. We are being told to close once we have all the staff. Because Rossetti has a vision that is only financial, I hope that he will be considered a "has been". She said that health is becoming more distant.
