- Two medical TGVs transported, this Friday, 48 new patients with Covid-19 from Ile de France to establishments located in Bordeaux, Angoulême and Poitiers.
- This new transfer of patients brings the number of patients who have reached New Aquitaine since the start of the epidemic to 134. The region is, according to the Regional Health Agency, the first region hosting Covid-19 cases in France.
- New Aquitaine, less affected by the epidemic, also sends support teams to care, who join the saturated establishments of Ile-de-France or the Grand-Est where work exhausted colleagues.
Two TGV medicalized transported this Friday, 45 patients with Covid-19 from Ile-de-France to New Aquitaine. At the same time, many caregivers in the region announced that they were ready to go and lend a hand to their exhausted colleagues from saturated establishments in Ile-de-France or Grand-Est. In the midst of the Covid-19 epidemic, New Aquitaine, a relatively spared region, plays the solidarity card and turns out to be, according to the Regional Health Agency (ARS), "the first region to receive patients" .
So, this Friday, 45 new Covid-19s left from Gare d'Austerlitz in Paris to join establishments in Bordeaux, Angoulême and Poitiers. The first “solidarity train”, as Michel Laforcade, director of ARS Nouvelle-Aquitaine likes to call them, ended at Bordeaux at 12.45 p.m. and the other Angoulême at 4 p.m., after a stop at Poitiers-Futuroscope station .
The two solidarity trains arrived in New Aquitaine with 45 patients on board, reports Michel Laforcade, general manager of @ARS_NAquit https://t.co/jA4GK7bALe
- Marion Pignot (@ pignot1) April 10, 2020Three patients "in real difficulty" remained in Paris
These patients were supported by eight teams of caregivers from New Aquitaine (Bordeaux, Poitiers, Limoges, Niort) and by four teams from Ile-de France. Forty-eight patients were expected, but three "were in real difficulty and the doctors of Ile-de-France preferred to keep them on the spot," said Michel Laforcade.
In Bordeaux, five patients are admitted to the Inter-Army Hospital (HIA), four to the Bordeaux Nord polyclinic and three to the Saint-Augustin clinic. Twelve others were referred to the CHU, to be received in the intensive care unit at the Pellegrin and Saint-André sites, as well as at the Haut Lévêque site, in Pessac. The other 21 patients were transferred to the Poitiers, Limoges, Brive, Niort, Angoulême and Saintes CHU. The transfer from Poitiers-Futuroscope station to Brive was made by HéliSMUR, said ARS.
New Aquitaine, "the first region to receive patients"
Since April 1, nearly 200 patients have already been evacuated from Ile-de-France by road, rail or air to regions less affected by the coronavirus, in particular Brittany and the Pays de la Loire, in order to unclog hospitals in Ile-de-France. Among them, 129 have joined New Aquitaine, "the first region to receive patients", according to Dr. Daniel Habold, director of the public health pole of ARS. "We can see good news because these transfers indicate that our region is also relatively less affected by the Covid-19," explains the expert at 20 Minutes . It also shows that patients have been out of intensive care for a few days. "
In total, more than 2,500 coronavirus patients are currently in intensive care in Île-de-France, the main epidemic focus in France with the Grand-Est region, there are “only” 241 in intensive care or intensive care in New Aquitaine. The region is therefore able to lend a hand to its neighbors, faced with a situation of persistent saturation. "Even if there is a decrease in cases in regions with a low impact, such as in New Aquitaine, we must keep in mind that our health system has never been in such a tense situation, however, recalled this Friday morning Dr. Daniel Habold. Our current accommodation capacity was unthinkable seven months ago. We have completely reorganized. "
This Friday, Michel Laforcade for his part, assured that the arrival of these 129 patients "was not in the process of thinning the care offer in New Aquitaine", which has 691 places in intensive care. “Among these patients, only one died. Twenty-four have left intensive care and some have returned home, ”adds Michel Laforcade. Still 800 kilometers from their homes, the others continue to be supported in other medical services or in pulmonary rehabilitation, for example.
"Being united is the least of things"
And while waiting for the arrival of new "solidarity trains", some caregivers leave for hospitals overwhelmed by patients with Covid-19. With several colleagues from the polyclinic of Navarre, in Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), Laure Detaille joined the hospital in Mulhouse on April 2. "Being united in times like that is the least of things," says the nurse anesthetist. At his side, Dr. Franck Decamps: "In Pau, nothing is happening, so we don't really realize, there is a big gap. Since I arrived, I have really been able to see the seriousness of this pathology, it is something that we cannot understand until we have seen it. "
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"I was able to help and I come back with an important experience," said Dr. Patrick Bodiou, anesthesiologist-resuscitator back home in the Arcachon basin. Hélène Munsch, her colleague, nursing assistant from Brive-la-Gaillarde, met by our colleague from AFP, has set herself three watchwords: "follow, listen, learn". Resuscitation "is a service that many caregivers understand", "very technical" with "very fragile" patients, recognizes one who "did not see himself not going there".
A new list of 197 volunteers has just been sent to the heads of hospitals in Ile-de-France. According to the ARS, "they will only have to call the caregivers they need".
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