Coronavirus: "There are going to be tragedies" in the hospital, warns a resuscitator

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It is a very severe and worried observation, both on the action of the government and on the situation of caregivers, delivered by Arnaud Chiche, resuscitator at the Hénin-Beaumont polyclinic (Hauts-de-France), on Sunday on Europe 1. While hospitals have been facing for several weeks a new influx of patients with coronavirus, these establishments "are not ready", warns the one who is also president of the "Collective health in danger". 

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"To be ready, it would have been necessary to identify the problems (...) put the absolute priorities in red so that the problem does not recur and put in place corrective actions. (...) This approach did not exist", regrets the doctor, who criticizes the government's mismanagement of the crisis, as well as the lack of progress since the first wave.

"We are at a stage where we ask people who are positive to come and work anyway. There is no reservation," he said, referring in particular to the situation at Nantes University Hospital.

And to alert: "The caregivers are not plaintive, they are not whiners. All the people who do these jobs do it because it is their vocation. But we place them in an extreme situation. difficulty. They will try to cope, but here we are pulling too much on the rope ".

"There will be tragedies, warns the guest from Europe 1. There are already psychological and social tragedies in the lives of caregivers. These people are completely isolated. The government is absolutely not aware of it. ".

"What has been done since March?"

The government, according to him, has failed in its management of the crisis across the board.

"The government has achieved the ultimate feat of being worse for the second crisis than for the first," he said.

“What has been done since March?” He asks, regretting in particular the “bad” health Ségur.

"The tests, it was not organized," he adds. 

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Finally, Arnaud Chiche underlines another aspect of the crisis in the hospital, less known to the general public, namely the lack of gloves for caregivers.

"I still receive messages today from nurses who work in operating theaters and who tell me: 'Arnaud, please talk about gloves'".

And to insist: "In France, in October 2020, sterile gloves are lacking to run the operating theaters".