The number of coronavirus patients in intensive care has increased further in the past 24 hours.
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PHILIPPE MAGONI / SIPA
“The private sector is there and the private sector can help”.
"If there were to be a new acceleration of the Covid-19 epidemic", the private sector "could upgrade its resuscitation services in order to have a greater number of beds", assured the Federation of private hospitalization (FHP), this Sunday.
"We are today between 1,500 and 2,000 intensive care beds dedicated to Covid patients and we can go up to 4,000", detailed Lamine Gharbi, president of the FHP.
Caring for non-Covid patients
In Ile-de-France, for example, placed under "enhanced surveillance" and where 791 people were in critical care on Friday according to figures from the Regional Health Agency (ARS), the private sector could support "up to 20 , 30% of patients hospitalized in intensive care, ”specifies Lamine Gharbi, adding that, during the first wave, this percentage had risen to 27%.
"To make room in resuscitation and mobilize staff", the clinics are deprogramming.
“It goes from 20% to 50%,” he said.
And if private clinics can support the public hospital by taking Covid patients in intensive care, they can also do it in medicine, in follow-up care and take non-Covid surgical patients to relieve the hospital and avoid delays in care , according to the FHP.
“We can help, but there also has to be goodwill from everyone on the pitch.
Under the aegis of regional health agencies, there really has to be cooperation between the public and the private sector, regulation, ”insists the president of the FHP.
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