A turn of the screw against Covid-19 to delay the opening of more beds

Gabriel Attal has been the government spokesperson since early July.

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The turn of the screw in the measures to fight against the Covid-19 epidemic must make it possible to "postpone as late as possible" the opening of additional intensive care beds dedicated to these patients, argued Friday the government spokesman Gabriel Attal.

Opening additional beds in intensive care means “deprogramming the surgical operations that were planned” and patients who will have to “wait before having an operation, so we want to delay it as late as possible”, explained Gabriel Attal on Europe 1.

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“We don't want to end up in a situation where the resuscitations are saturated and that's why we are taking these difficult measures.

We hope that they will last as short as possible ”, he added, while a sling of local elected officials broke out after the announcement of more restrictive measures in Marseille to stem the number of cases of Covid-19 In the region.

He mentioned "a very high resuscitation occupancy rate, around 50% I believe in Marseille with Covid patients".

Already postponement announcements

The direction of the Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP) announced Thursday that it would postpone 20% of the surgeries scheduled from this weekend.

The number of “Covid patients” admitted to intensive care at the AP-HP rose from 50 in early September to 132 on Wednesday and should exceed 200 by the end of the month, the institution said.

Asked whether, since the peak of the spring epidemic, resuscitation and hospitalization beds had been opened in French hospitals, Gabriel Attal said: "Yes, of course".

As to how much, he did not answer, stressing that "already what we have shown in the first wave is that we were able to increase our resuscitation capacities, to transform beds".

The intensive care / intensive care services, which had 5,000 beds throughout France before the coronavirus crisis, were saturated in the spring with at the peak of the epidemic more than 7,500 people hospitalized in these services from all causes.

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