A nurse and a caregiver at the bedside of a Covid-19 patient in November 2020 at Grasse hospital.

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The debate on the restrictive measures necessary to contain the coronavirus has been raging since the government placed 20 departments on “enhanced surveillance” Thursday.

Frédéric Valletoux, president of the Hospital Federation of France (FHF) and Mayor Agir de Fontainebleau, asked this Friday “more drastic measures” to limit the saturation of hospitals by patients with Covid-19.

"I ask that they [the government] not hesitate to take drastic measures where necessary, we must not wait for the hospitals to be overwhelmed as is the case in Dunkirk because the reality is that is that confinement is announced, ”he said on the France 2 set.

10 to 20% ”of hospital procedures deprogrammed in Ile-de-France

“There comes a time when we only hold on by evacuating patients or by deprogramming and, when we deprogram (…), you do not know if that does not represent a loss of opportunity for these people (…).

It is never easy to deprogram and it is not an act without consequences ”, he added.

He reaffirmed that "between 10 and 20%" of hospital acts had been deprogrammed since mid-January in Ile-de-France "to make it possible to hold".

"The later we reconfine, the more we know that the hospital lines will be called upon, it's mechanical", he insisted.

In Paris, "Lépine contest of the false good idea"

"In certain territories (such as the Maritime Alps or the Dunkirk region), perhaps more drastic measures would have been necessary immediately" and "to prohibit mobility or to restrict it to prevent flows and comings and goings".

Asked about the proposal of the mayor of Paris to reconfine the capital strictly for three weeks in order to "have the prospect of reopening everything" then, including bars, restaurants and cultural places, Frédéric Valletoux described it as a "Lépine de the false good idea ”.

Regarding vaccination, he deplored a "lack" of vaccines.

"Today logistics chains exist (...), what is missing are vaccines", he said, specifying that in "his city" (Fontainebleau), where "a hundred people are vaccinated daily He "could vaccinate four to five times more" if he had the necessary number of vaccines.

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