The SA-URG partners met in Bayonne to launch the project's actions. This first meeting was a good opportunity for each partner to present the emergency healthcare organization in its area before focusing on the main lines of action of its entity in the project. The level of progress of each action and the next steps to be taken to continue working together to improve emergency health care in the cross-border area were analyzed.
During this first meeting, the essential axes of the SA-URG communication plan that must accompany the project in all its stages in order to achieve its objectives and maximize its impact on the health professionals involved, on the population and on the territory were also discussed. The communication around the SA-URG project should serve as a lever to eliminate the barriers that prevent the correct collaboration between the teams, as well as to valorize the SA-URG response as a cross-border solution for emergency management in the Pyrenean territory.
The meeting was preceded by a press conference to present SA-URG to the local media in which the progress of cross-border cooperation in the field of health emergency management in recent years was also recalled. The partners have stressed that "cross-border cooperation brings us closer to our neighbors and becomes a team: we progress and together we can improve the service to citizens."
Visit to SAMU 64A
The meeting in Bayonne also provided an opportunity to learn more about SAMU 64 and to exchange best practices. The hosts also organized a visit of the infrastructures. Édouard Gault, head of SAMU 64, explains that "the SA-URG project is expected to perpetuate this cross-border work along the Pyrenean border to improve, for example, health care in extraordinary situations and major events. More specifically, in Bayonne, we are going to work on two axes: the first is the analysis of the health management of major events with the aim of drafting international recommendations and also the equipment that will be used, for example, in the deployment of the cross-border mobile team."
