Third hospital group in France, the Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille (AP-HM) is expecting a “wave” of coronavirus patients in the coming days, before a peak in early April, when resuscitation care will reach its limits .
"For the moment the solicitation is still below what we expect," said Thursday during a telephone press point the director general of the AP-HM, Jean Olivier Arnaud. The influx "is likely to start within 72 hours" and reach "its maximum by the end of next week," he added.
At the limit of resuscitation capacities
According to the mathematical model used by the AP-HM, which however cannot take into account the effects of confinement, Marseilles hospitals should then "reach the limit of (their) resuscitation capacities", which will reach 142 beds at this point. then. "It will be played in a few units," he said.
Marseilles hospitals, which had 170 respirators, notably ordered "fifty more", for nearly a million euros, which must be delivered from Friday. By Thursday, 55 resuscitation beds were occupied, out of a total of 86 ready for immediate use.
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