It is a real call for help. Overwhelmed by the Covid-19 epidemic, the Moselle asked the health authorities for help to deal with a patient flow that had become unmanageable. At the Metz-Thionville hospital center, it is now impossible to open additional beds. An "extremely urgent situation" of which the only way out for now lies in the transfer of patients to other hospitals.
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The maximum capacity of intensive care beds reached
The last 100 beds available were opened on Monday morning, but at 6 p.m. 93 of them were occupied. As for the other seven, it's only a matter of time. "If I want to open more beds and the same number of patients arrive every day (maybe more because we are told that we are not at the peak yet), I do not know where I will put them, I am in a dead end ", alerts the microphone of Europe 1 the director general of the Marie-Odile Saillard hospital.
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"12 transfers" of patients per day to meet the needs of the population
"We absolutely, imperatively, and vitally transfer 12 patients a day to meet the needs of the population," she said. Currently one to two patients are being transferred to Germany, but this help is not enough. An increase is therefore necessary, while the Metz-Thionville hospital center has so far seen more patients cross the Rhine than join other French regions.