In Martinique, the health situation is worsening day by day.
Health Minister Olivier Véran and Overseas Minister Sébastien Lecornu were traveling to the island on Thursday.
They visited a hospital in Fort-de-France, where there are patients in intensive care, because of the coronavirus, aged "20 or 30 years".
The Minister of Health Olivier Véran, traveling Thursday to Fort-de-France, warned that the Covid-19 patients currently hospitalized in Martinique were "young, very young" and deplored that no patient in intensive care "is vaccinated ". "The health situation is out of all proportion to what we have seen in previous waves and especially in metropolitan France," said Olivier Véran during a press point with his colleague from Overseas Sébastien Lecornu at the end of the meeting. '' a visit to the CHU of Fort-de-France.
"We do not come out unscathed from a visit to this hospital," he admitted.
"The patients are young, very young. In the emergency room, they are 40-50 years old. In intensive care, they can be 20 or 30 years old," he said, while a strong wave of coronavirus hits Martinique and Guadeloupe, two islands where the population has been reconfined.
There is "not a single patient vaccinated in intensive care"
According to the Minister of Health, patients "are not necessarily suffering from what are called co-morbidities. They are not necessarily very obese". "These are people who were in good health a few days ago and who today are on their stomachs, intubated, in a coma in the intensive care units", he explained, stressing that he "n there is not a single patient vaccinated in intensive care ".
"This attests to the need to promote vaccination, to accelerate it, to amplify it", he assured, the vaccination rate being one of the lowest in Martinique. "The time is no longer for doubt!", He stressed. Before the arrival of the ministers, a hundred demonstrators protested in front of the CHU, in particular against the vaccination obligation of caregivers and the lack of chronic means.