Europe 1 with AFP 9:18 p.m., August 19, 2021

New metropolitan caregivers will take off for Martinique and Guadeloupe on Friday afternoon to relieve the West Indian hospitals.

These teams will come "in support" and will "take over" from those "already on site".

More than 300 health professionals will fly from Parisian Orly airport on Friday afternoon to Martinique and Guadeloupe, whose hospitals are saturated with Covid-19 cases.

The caregivers will come "in support" and will "take over" from the teams "already on site", according to a statement from the Ministry of Health.

Relieving West Indian hospitals

The director general of health, Jérôme Salomon, will be present in Orly to "thank and greet" these professionals "mobilized for the national solidarity effort towards the West Indies", the same source indicates. The airlift set up to relieve the West Indian hospitals has already materialized by two movements: 240 doctors, nurses and orderlies left on August 10, then around 120 last Tuesday, still "fairly distributed" between Guadeloupe and Martinique, according to the ministry.