Health authorities have just banned a convoy of patients with Covid-19 to Tours. These patients came from the Reims University Hospital, the Courlancy private polyclinic in Bezannes and the Châlons en Champagne hospital to the University Hospital and the Saint-Gatien clinic in Tours (Indre-et-Loire). But after more than an hour on the road, the bus driver was ordered to turn back.
"The director of the CHU received a phone call," stating "that this transfer had to be stopped and the patients returned," explained Arnaud Robinet, mayor of Reims and chairman of the supervisory board of the CHU de Reims. "Interregional exchanges [of patients with Covid-19] are subject to the authorization of the health crisis center of the Ministry of Health, which was not the case" during this transfer, explained the Regional Agency of Health (ARS) of Grand Est.
An "administrative hiccup"
“The doctrine is national and declined at the regional level. Thus, priority is first given to interdepartmental transfers within regional hospital groups, ”we added from the same source. “The transfer was delayed in order to be in line with the regulation implemented at the national level. If other transfers were to take place, they would be in accordance with this national framework, "assured the Reims University Hospital on Tuesday evening in a press release. The establishment has since declined to comment.
The mayor of Reims Arnaud Robinet regretted him an “administrative hiccup” but “not medical! ", Recalling that the hospital in his city is currently" on the verge of saturation ".
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As of March 30, according to the latest figures that Agence France-Presse has been able to obtain, the Reims University Hospital had 93 inpatient patients confirmed Covid-19 or awaiting confirmation and 38 patients in dedicated resuscitation Covid-19, i.e. 77% capacity utilization.
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