REPORTAGE
The Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly had announced it Friday: in the Haut-Rhin, in Mulhouse, major center of the epidemic caused by the coronavirus, fifteen tents, comprising 30 beds, are being installed on the parking lot at Emile-Muller hospital. There, a handful of soldiers are busy, assisted by employees of the medical establishment, noted our reporter.
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These beds, supposed to increase the resuscitation capacity of the civilian hospital center and accommodate patients in the next few days, were conveyed by convoy in 16 army trucks, after a journey that lasted 6 hours. They must be divided into five modules of six beds and supervised by a hundred medical personnel from the armed forces. They join the 117 beds, 40 of which are for intensive care, already made available throughout France for the sick in five military hospitals.
Military plans to use civilian hospital infrastructure
The tents are also equipped with respirators, protective masks and airlocks designed to secure the entrances and exits of the Covid-19 zones. The army health service teams hope to be able to use the hospital's technical and medical infrastructure (such as radiology or imaging tools).
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On Wednesday, a medical Air Force A330 had already evacuated six patients from hospitals in Mulhouse and Colmar to military hospitals in Marseille and Toulon.