A resuscitation team from the Purpan University Hospital in Toulouse, at the bedside of a Covid patient.

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F. Scheiber - Sipa

  • Hospitalizations are accelerating at the Toulouse University Hospital, which currently has 103 intensive care beds.

  • In non-specialized services, these beds are 90% occupied but there are still possibilities to increase capacity.

Five new Covid-19 patients were hospitalized overnight from Wednesday to Thursday at the Toulouse University Hospital, bringing their number to 174, including 33 in intensive care and around 20 in intensive care.

But in the surge of the second wave of the coronavirus epidemic, a ray of sunshine sometimes creeps in for caregivers: "This week a 93-year-old Covid patient came out cured," says Bernard Georges, the head of intensive care at Rangueil hospital.

The anesthesiologist describes "a tired but very voluntary staff" who, two weeks before the peak of hospitalizations feared by the regional health agency, still has room for maneuver.

The CHU currently houses 103 intensive care beds (20 more than two weeks ago), including 72 in multi-purpose adult intensive care units - 40 in Rangueil and 32 in Purpan - occupied for the moment "at 90% »And for half, this is the big difference with the first wave, by patients with other pathologies.

Good coordination with clinics

For now, the main regional hospital can still see the walls coming and pushing.

"We have planned six levels to ramp up with the possibility of opening 25 more multipurpose resuscitation beds in Rangueil and increasing to 49 in Purpan, with the appropriate equipment and personnel", explains Bernard Georges.

If the worst happens, there will be a final possibility that did not need to be activated in the spring to transform the recovery rooms and gain 30 additional beds.

“In addition, the effort is well coordinated, including on treatments, with the private sector which takes its part”, underlines the doctor.

For now, the CHU is holding on.

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