The army field hospital deployed at the foot of the civilian hospital in Mulhouse, in the Haut-Rhin, to relieve it in the face of the coronavirus epidemic currently has no more patients due to the decrease in the number of patients seriously affected, we learned on Saturday from the armed forces.
"There are currently no more patients at the EMR-SSA (Military Resuscitation Unit of the Armed Forces Health Service) in Mulhouse. The last patient was transferred on May 7," a source told AFP. military, without specifying how many beds were still installed.
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"To my knowledge, there are no more patients but still beds, ready to be refilled if ever we need them," said Haut-Rhin prefect Laurent Touvet, during a press conference.
With an initial capacity of 30 beds, one of the three spans of this equipment installed in a few days in March on the parking lot of the public hospital, had been dismantled on April 18, in view of the improvement in the health situation in the Haut -Rhine.
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Its possible complete dismantling "is a decision that is taken at government level to see where in France we need this hospital the most and whether its presence is still necessary in Mulhouse or not," explained Laurent Touvet.
A first in France
Two days before the start of the deconfinement, the prefect of Haut-Rhin underlined the difficulty in finding a "balance between the situation which is improving but which one is not sure that it has definitely improved".
Constituted from elements usually used during external operations for acts of care of combat surgery, the deployment of the military field hospital was a first on the national territory to treat civilian patients in situation of acute respiratory distress as part of the coronavirus epidemic, of which the Haut-Rhin was one of the main French outbreaks.