We're repacking. The army field hospital installed on a parking lot of the Mulhouse civil hospital to help it cope with the influx of patients suffering from coronavirus began to be dismantled on Friday, we learned this Saturday from of the Army. "We have unequipped bay 1, which corresponds to a module of 10 resuscitation beds of military resuscitation equipment (EMR) of the army health service, the disassembly is still in progress," said Lt. Lucie.
This field hospital with an initial capacity of 30 beds had received its first patient on March 24, when the resuscitation services of the regional hospital group of Mulhouse were saturated. The situation has since improved significantly in the Haut-Rhin, one of the main epidemic centers in France, and the hospital is now preparing "its plan to end the crisis", according to a press release issued on Friday.
The number of calls to Samu returned to normal
The number of calls to the Samu thus passed on April 15, for the first time in seven weeks, below the threshold of 500, which amounts to a return to normal, underlines the press release. Since the start of the epidemic, the Mulhouse regional hospital group has treated more than 1,800 patients in connection with the Covid-19 and 465 of them have died.
Despite the presence of the EMR, 163 civilian hospital patients had to be transferred to other hospitals, sometimes at the other end of France or in neighboring countries. Despite the improvement in the situation, the hospital stresses that it continues to have a great need for reinforcements, mainly nurses and nursing assistants, while its staff are exhausted and sick leave is on the increase.
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