While several personalities criticize the government for not having opened enough additional intensive care beds in recent months, doctors remind Europe 1 that such openings require human resources and long-term training. 

Should we blame the government and health authorities for not having increased enough the number of places in intensive care since the peak of the coronavirus crisis?

This weekend, the former Minister of Ecology Ségolène Royal castigated the action of the executive, believing that the latter had "six months to increase the number of beds".

"Only this lack explains the catastrophic measures for economic activity", she criticizes again, referring for example to the closures of restaurants and bars, total or partial.

But for several doctors contacted by Europe 1, these critics underestimate in particular the human numbers necessary to open more beds. 

Full support for this remedy.

Also request an injunction from the State to increase places in hospital care because only this lack explains the catastrophic measures for economic activity.

The Ministry of Health has had 6 months to increase the number of beds.

Balance sheet?

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- Ségolène Royal (@RoyalSegolene) September 25, 2020

First, it is ignoring that the coronavirus is a very dangerous virus that kills.

Of course, resuscitation care has improved, but the mortality rate is still very high, especially in the most vulnerable groups such as the elderly. 

Concerned doctors

"It is irresponsible to say 'there is only, there is only'", annoys Professor Gilles Pialoux, head of infectious diseases at Tenon hospital in Paris.

"To open resuscitation beds is to open beds with trained personnel. However, we do not train them in three, six, eight months. That is counted in number of years."

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To imagine that one can open whole wards and heaps of resuscitation beds in such a short time "is at worst 'bravitude', at worst 'stupiditude'" quips another doctor.

More broadly, all the doctors contacted by Europe 1 are very worried and upset.

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"We are at a crucial moment of the disease, another recalls. If we give the floor to all the counter epidemiologists, the risk that the population will not accept the current measures is very great."