Two new TGV medicalized from Paris must evacuate 36 patients to Brittany on Wednesday to relieve the Ile-de-France resuscitation services from the coronavirus epidemic. "We are both transferring patients, which frees up beds and we continue to transfer equipment and human resources to continue to arm beds," explained Wednesday on Europe 1 Benoît Vallet, anesthesiologist-resuscitator in charge of patient transfers on behalf of the AP-HP and the Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency.
Transfers also planned by helicopter
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According to this former director general of Health, a minimum of 40 people must be transferred on Wednesday, adding travel by helicopter. "So in fact it is a permanent movement which supposes a very, very intense level of national regulation," he said. "The choice of patients corresponds to patients who are still serious enough to remain in intensive care for a few days and who are stabilized to allow a transfer without risks."
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A "big potential" for transfers
While more than 2,000 patients now occupy intensive care units in Île-de-France, Benoît Vallet believes that the volume of transfers still represents "great potential".
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To stem the crisis, Benoît Vallet also hopes that Parisian hospitals will continue to adapt. "We hope to be 2,200 and then 2,400 beds in the days and weeks to come," he concludes.