Médecins sans frontières has committed to the fight against the coronavirus by installing a tent capable of accommodating 12 patients next to the Reims University Hospital. A precious help for this hospital, whose resuscitation service is 80% full.

After the field hospital in Mulhouse, the Doctors Without Borders tent. The humanitarian association has decided to set up a mobile structure to relieve a CHU in Reims, in the Grand Est, where the teams of caregivers work in tense conditions. A very precious help in a region which is one of the main foci of coronavirus in France.

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A tent that can accommodate 12 patients ...

Usually, this large white tent from Doctors Without Borders is deployed in places ravaged by earthquakes. Today, it can accommodate 12 patients from Professor Mourvillier, head of the intensive care unit at the Reims teaching hospital. "It is an area where we can begin care for the patients who need it, if we ever reach saturation of the resuscitation capacities of the hospital." he explains at the microphone of Europe 1.

The structure can accommodate 12 people in need of first aid resuscitation, before they can join the SHR of #Reims hospital. # Covid_19 # coronaviruspic.twitter.com / XaDwjuX6vb

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... like a resuscitation service valve

A tent like a sort of valve for 80% full service and where Martin, a nurse anesthetist, has just noted a stabilization of arrivals "for two or three days". This does not prevent him from having, like all caregivers, particularly exhausting days. "There is still a service in which there is a little room, the other is full. All day long we do not stop: managing the organization of treatments, infusions, deaths, or even helping colleagues. .. We are completely emptied physically and morally but hey, we don't have much choice. "

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If the epidemic has not yet reached its peak, and the fear of a second wave of patients leaves cold sweats, there are still sometimes small moments of happiness. "The first patient who came out of intensive care, woke up and extubated, everyone had a little tears in their eyes. We even applauded," says the nurse anesthetist. "The patient was as moved as we are. We will keep these beautiful images in mind, we will need as many as possible in the coming days."