Since the beginning of March, a hospital has been the most at risk for contracting the coronavirus. Even if the number of admitted patients is decreasing, the Covid-19 is not switched off and remains in circulation. Patients admitted to hospitals, but also several caregivers, can be contagious. So since the beginning of the crisis, those who suffered from a pathology other than the coronavirus have done everything to avoid going to the hospital: a behavior which has resulted in a decrease in the use of emergency services .
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"My doctor told me to go to the hospital right away"
But after two months of enduring the pain at home, some had no choice but to go to the emergency room. This is the case of Bernard, who suffers from a heart disease. "It is true that I waited until the day when I found it more and more difficult to walk, the swollen feet, I was breathless. And so, I went back to see my treating doctor and who, there , said to me: 'urgently, call 15 and leave immediately to the hospital' ", he tells the microphone of Europe 1.
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"We are going to be faced with an excess mortality"
Water in the lungs and a passage in intensive care: this 66 year old man passed very close to death. During the entire health crisis, the cardiology department of the Melun hospital in Seine-et-Marne was closed. And for a few weeks, the head of this unit, Cyrus Moini, has seen his "second wave" coming to him. "We are invaded by patients who arrive in extremely advanced heart failure", he explains at the microphone of Europe 1. "We are going to be faced with an excess mortality which is much more important for all these patients".
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Many doctors think it's time to get back to normal
Laurent Tsakiris, head of the hepato-gastroenterology department, sees patients with cancers who arrive in dramatic states every day. And the delay is accumulating at all levels, because the health protocol requires them to space out consultations. However, there have been no more cases of coronavirus for three weeks in his hospital. For him, it is time to return to normal. "This adaptability that we have shown during the crisis may allow us to soften the rules if conditions continue to evolve on the current slope," he explains.
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"Because in the event of a new wave, we would probably be able to react with the same speed", justifies Laurent Tsakiris, before recalling a weighty argument: "A few months late in treatment is years of less life expectancy. "