With the arrival of Covid-19 patients from the Grand Est and Ile-de-France regions, the hospitals of Pays de la Loire had to reorganize and also strengthen themselves to cope with this unusual influx of patients . All this, of course, in an emergency.
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One patient in remission, another returning home
"When we extubated the first two patients from the Grand Est region, I really felt a form of shared pride", testifies to Europe 1 Professor Alain Mercat, who heads the resuscitation service at the Angers CHU. One patient in remission, another returning home. This is also the reality of the crisis, good news that has come to boost the morale of patients and teams in the Pays-de-la Loire. Some are still novices, and learn time-lapse.
"We have set up, for nurses who come to work in intensive care, when she had not done it for a very long time, very accelerated half-day training", explains Professor Mercat. "We also ensure, in the training of teams, that there can be one or two very experienced nurses who can reassure their colleagues."
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75 patients arrived from Grand Est and Île-de-France
Colleagues who were not necessarily used to working together. "We had to get to know each other, get to know each other fairly quickly since we were impacted very quickly", says Jean-Claude Lacherade, resuscitation manager at La Roche-sur-Yon. Since March 26 and the arrival of the first medicalized TGV connecting Strasbourg to Nantes, 75 patients from the Grand Est and Île-de-France have been hospitalized in the Pays-de-la-Loire.