While a large number of children suffer from bronchiolitis in Île-de-France, hospitals face a shortage of beds and staff. In question, a lack of resources already denounced by caregivers, on the street, November 13 last.

On November 13th, the hospital staff had already gone down to the streets to demand more resources. Currently, it is children who are likely to suffer, because the management of cases of bronchiolitis in the Paris region is failing. For several weeks, lack of beds available and especially staff to reopen these beds, the regulatory teams of Samu Ile-de-France had to send children several hundred kilometers from Paris, Amiens, Rouen, Reims and Lille. With risks for these children.

22 transfers of children to the province

"In 30 years, I have never seen such a tense situation with so many closed beds", testifies well Noëlla Lodé, representative of 5 SMUR Pediatric in Ile-de-France, which, since the beginning of the epidemic of bronchiolitis mid-October, had to transfer 22 children to provincial hospitals. Against 3 for all last year.

She denounces an untenable situation even when the peak of the epidemic has not been reached. "We are still in France! And we have to do a lot of DIY solutions.To avoid transfers in the province, we put the big children in resuscitation of adults who are not used to certain diseases. Special chronicles to the child.And as a doctor, to hear to say to use degraded solutions, that seems to me inadmissible, "she adds.

Insufficient measures

Plan B, Stéphane Dauger, head of the pediatric resuscitation unit at the Robert Debré Hospital in Paris, finds it every day. But he fears the worst: "The situation is so exceptional that we actually feel it when we talk with the staff, they are afraid of doing something stupid, of missing a watch."

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After an emergency meeting last Monday with the Minister of Health, three beds were reopened at Necker Hospital. "A largely insufficient measure" for all pediatric specialists interviewed. The head of the Necker Hospital regrets not to be believed, since the Ministry of Health asked at the same time the opening of an investigation of the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (IGAS) on the situation in this pediatric intensive care unit.