Resuscitation services in Ile-de-France are under pressure and it will soon be difficult to welcome new patients.

So to relieve the hospitals, patient transfers began to New Aquitaine, Pays de la Loire and Occitanie.

A solution disputed by some caregivers. 

More than a thousand people with the coronavirus are in intensive care in Île-de-France and the figures are increasing in other regions of France.

"The critical threshold is not far," confides a caregiver to Europe 1. The government has announced the transfer of certain patients to relieve hospital services in the Ile-de-France region.

Saturday, three patients were sent to Nantes, Angers and Le Mans.   

"We must consider [the transfer of] several dozen patients in the coming week," said François Braun, president of Samu Urgence France.

"Services are very tight" in Île-de-France and the first difficulties in welcoming new patients are being felt, he says.

To speed up the operation, medical TGVs could take over in the coming days with 20 to 40 patients per trip.

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"Limited effectiveness" for some doctors

But this solution is not the right one for Christophe Prudhomme, emergency doctor at Samu 93. "These are media operations but with quite limited effectiveness," he says, adding that three patients here and there. there ", would not relieve the hospitals in Ile-de-France. For the doctor, it would be" much more reasonable to reopen beds by bringing in available personnel from the provinces ".

“Since May, why haven't we equipped hospitals that could accommodate patients today? Hospitals that have been closed completely or in part in recent years such as the Hôtel hospital. God or the Val-de-Grâce! ", He continues, angry. 

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Private clinics are once again welcoming intensive care patients 

Private clinics have also returned to supporting public hospitals.

Since Monday 40% of surgeries have been deprogrammed there.

"We are now taking care of 25% of patients in intensive care. We will be able to go up, as in the first wave, to 30%", assures Lamine Gharbi, president of the Federation of private hospitalization.

According to the government, a patient is admitted to intensive care in Île-de-France every 12 minutes.