- Critical for hospitals, the number of patients with Covid-19 in the Alsatian intensive care units has decreased.
- However, the total number of hospitalizations due to the epidemic continues to increase.
- At the Mulhouse hospital, a call for medical staff was launched to relieve the staff.
The doctor sees this as a sign of hope: "During the Easter weekend, we brought out our first cured patients, after three weeks of resuscitation, welcomes doctor Jean-François Cerfon, head of one of the units of resuscitation at the hospital in Colmar, in the Haut-Rhin. They were among the heaviest cases, since the healthiest left, by train or plane, in the southwest of France or in Germany. It was a moment of happiness for the team, and much awaited. "
In the Haut-Rhin, the number of patients in intensive care because of the coronavirus has suspended its worrying progression. Monday, 140 people were in these intensive care services in the department, one less than the previous week, and 880 in the Grand Est (57 fewer in a week).
"Patients do not go home directly"
On the other hand, the total number of people screened positive and hospitalized continues to increase: they were 4,928, Monday in the Grand-Est (+127 over a week), including 1,023 in the Haut-Rhin (+17). In the Bas-Rhin, 1,106 (+28 over a week) people were hospitalized on Monday, including 256 (-9 over a week) in intensive care.
This number of hospitalizations includes patients who have left intensive care because "they do not go home directly," says Dr. Cerfon. “They are going to other medical departments, some of them for pulmonology to do respiratory physiotherapy, where they will recover from these very trying weeks. But these are sick people who talk again, who can eat their meals, and it's nice to see. "
Other good news, the doctor who had been placed in intensive care in Colmar is out of artificial ventilation and his condition has improved. In the Haut-Rhin, four general practitioners have died of the coronavirus since the start of the epidemic which left 508 dead in the department.
New contaminations to fear
We must not declare victory too soon. "We are starting to feel the storm that is disappearing, but we have not got rid of the virus and we must not disarm, warns Dr. Cerfon. Even though admissions are fewer and fewer, there are still some. Outside, how many people were actually infected? How many people continue to be potential contaminants? More than a second wave, we risk having smaller peaks with groups of people who are still contaminating themselves… What is worrying is that we do not know very well how we are going to get rid of viruses. In fact, if prolonged confinement freezes the situation, there is no vaccine and the treatments have yet to prove their effectiveness.
Staying mobilized means having enough staff to provide this exceptional service. After a call to doctors, it is a call to caregivers, hospital service agents and radio manipulators that launched on Tuesday the hospital group of Mulhouse.
On Sunday, an Air Force plane had transported 12 caregivers, departing from Nice airport, "to strengthen the hospital".
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