Are patients who, in normal times, could have access to resuscitation beds, deprived of them because of the scale of the health crisis caused by the epidemic of coronavirus? This is the question posed by two associations, which deposited a summary liberty before the Council of State, Thursday. They ask for a clarification of the conditions of admission of patients.
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"We know that there are choices that are made, all year round, based on medical criteria", explain these associations. But they believe that with the lack of beds and respirators, the situation has worsened, especially for the elderly. They therefore demand an "explicit protocol" to supervise this decision-making, and not make it rest solely on doctors.
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"The government is responsible for this shortage"
"It is obvious that in the current state of the health situation, age is much more taken into account and the so-called comorbidity factors are appreciated much more severely", believes Me Guillaume Hannotin, lawyer for the association Coronavictimes, questioned by Europe 1. "Why? Because there is a criterion which is not stated, which is the criterion of material deficiency and the doctor is not responsible for this shortage. is the government that is responsible for this shortage. "
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All resuscitators contacted by Europe 1 assure them that there is no "age barrier" and that admission to resuscitation is always evaluated according to the condition of the patient, but also the state of other patients around him at the same time. "So, yes, there are choices, but we also do it all year round, it is the very heart of our business" insists one of them.