- The Samu's Covid-19 cell, set up at the start of the new coronavirus epidemic in early March, will be lightened on Monday.
- It concerns patients affected by the coronavirus but who do not have serious symptoms.
- About fifty Covid-19 resuscitation beds remain available in Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
"This is one of the first effects of confinement," says Patrick Goldstein, head of emergency at the Lille CHRU. The Samu's Covid-19 cell, set up at the start of the new coronavirus epidemic in early March, will be lightened on Monday.
This cell operates with the voluntary reinforcement of medical students. She is responsible for assessing patients who did not present serious symptoms on first detection. "The number of students mobilized at the same time, between 8 am and 9 pm, will drop from 25 to 15," says Patrick Goldstein. But we warned them that if necessary, the workforce can go up. "
Teleconsultation development
This drop in the number of calls to Samu Covid-19 is explained by several phenomena, according to the emergency manager. “This system was major at the start of the crisis because we received a lot of calls, especially from anxious people who needed to be reassured. Today, the public has a better knowledge of the disease, a dozen dedicated medical centers have emerged in the region and above all, the network of general practitioners, thanks to the development of teleconsultations, has taken over. "
However, in severe cases, "the volume of reinforcement remains the same," says Patrick Goldstein. In Hauts-de-France, where 330 people had died in hospital on April 1, 478 people are receiving intensive care or intensive care in hospitals in the region, including 90 at Lille CHRU.
"Our biggest concern right now is the lack of equipment and medicine," laments the emergency doctor. There is a lot of work, but we have not reached saturation of beds, In the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, there are still about fifty places in intensive care ».
The private sector lends a helping hand
Especially since the private sector is helping. The La Louvière clinic opened the first ten resuscitation beds dedicated to Covid-19 on Wednesday. "Since March 13 and the request of the Ministry of Health, we have programmed all non-urgent surgical and medical operations, which represents 80% of our activity", explains François Guth, director of the Lille Métropole cluster of the Ramsay group.
The metropolitan area's ten clinics have been offering 28 non-Covid intensive care beds and 30 intensive care unit beds for the past week, which allow transfers of non-Covid patients from the Lille CHU to free up space. Next Monday 20 Covid beds are to be opened at the Bois clinic in Lille.
"For the moment, the Lille University Hospital only requests us for non-Covid resuscitation patients, but we are ready, in the event of an epidemic peak", assures François Guth.
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