Everything is being implemented at the Dieppe hospital in Seine-Maritime to ensure the continuity of the service while nearly 150 caregivers are affected by the Covid-19 and almost as many patients.
On Europe 1, the mayor of the city, Nicolas Langlois, calls for additional human resources in all services.
The Dieppe hospital is one of the most disturbing clusters to appear in recent days.
Nearly 150 caregivers and almost as many patients have contracted Covid-19.
A crisis unit was set up on Friday morning to try to react as quickly as possible and reorganize the services.
"The situation is under control by the hospital community and by the management, but it is urgent. It requires that we send human reinforcements", reacted the mayor of Dieppe, Nicolas Langlois, at the microphone of Europe 1 Saturday.
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This morning, residents were still reluctant to go to the emergency room for fear of overcrowding the hospital.
"Obviously, we are not reassured. If we could treat ourselves we would do it," said Cyril, at the entrance to the emergency room, accompanying his sick son.
Faced with the persistence of his violent stomach aches which have not passed for three days, he went to the hospital despite the fear of the coronavirus and that of saturating the services: "How to relieve them", wonders- he does.
Not enough caregivers?
While nearly 10% of agents are now contaminated, the situation is more tense than ever.
The unions are asking the government for national help after appealing to all local support: "Locally, everything that could be repatriated has been repatriated. Liberals, private clinics, people who are hired to do low-skilled tasks and that we can take without having graduated ... ", lists Bruno Rique, CGT manager of hospital staff.
According to him, there are simply not enough caregivers in Dieppe to overcome this crisis.
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The bell is the same on the side of Mayor Nicolas Langlois.
If he speaks of a "controlled" situation and encourages the people who need it to go to the hospital for treatment, he nevertheless sends a message in the form of a call for help "to all those and those who can come and lend a hand to nurses, doctors, nursing assistants to administrative and technical staff ".