Already in difficulty, the hospital is ringing out general mobilization so as not to be overwhelmed by the "second wave" of the Covid-19 epidemic in France, which could turn out to be "worse than the first".

"The hospital is already running at full capacity when we know that we will have more patients to take care of", alerted, Friday, October 23, on RTL Martin Hirsch for whom "the hospital is already in difficulty".

The major maneuvers which are accelerating attest to this: the Hauts-de-France Regional Health Agency (ARS) asked, on Thursday, the hospitals of the region to arm 96 additional intensive care beds.

"We are able to go up to 7,700 beds within a period of less than 15 days", for his part assured Olivier Véran, Minister of Health.

Eight first patients were also transferred, Friday, from Auvergne Rhône-Alpes to hospitals in Bordeaux, Poitiers and Brive, announced the ARS of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, a region more spared.

“We are at 30% deprogramming,” explained Jean Pinson, director of hospitals in Saint-Denis and Gonesse, in the northern suburbs of Île-de-France. 

"64% of intensive care beds occupied"

The health situation continues to deteriorate with 41,622 new cases of Covid-19 recorded in 24 hours, a new record, according to figures published Thursday by Public Health France.

And over the last seven days, 1,627 Covid-19 patients were admitted to intensive care out of 10,166 new hospitalizations.

Friday, at 2 p.m., in Île-de-France, there were "64% of sheaves beds occupied by Covid patients", tweeted the director of the ARS Aurélien Rousseau, calling on the population to "deprogram" their "interactions social ".

Every day, the figures arrive around 2 p.m.: 8,000 new cases, 83 new admissions in 24 hours and 64% of sheave beds occupied by covid patients, 57 deaths ... More than ever, with the approach of the WE, the health system needs us: let's deprogram our social interactions

- Aurélien Rousseau (@aur_rousseau) October 23, 2020

For starters, seasonal activity is much more important.

"We are in the autumn period and, not to mention the pandemic, our resuscitation services are already almost full," said Ferhat Meziani, head of intensive medicine and resuscitation at the CHU of the city of Strasbourg, where we are now close to the threshold. maximum alert.

And this time, the hospital will have to welcome patients with Covid but also others.

However, although respirators and drugs essential for resuscitation (curares, hypnotics) have been stocked and the organization, support and treatments run in, the workforce, severely affected by the first health crisis, is still at half mast.

A chronic shortage of personnel to which must be added sick leaves.

And more than half of the nurses are "in a situation of professional exhaustion", had alerted mid-October the National Order of Nurses.

"A formidable month of November"

The Ministry of Health has already launched an appeal by creating the Renfort-RH platform.

The AP-HP did the same by distributing a form for "mobilization of reinforcements in medical and paramedical personnel".

Some establishments have also canceled their staff vacations, especially during All Saints' Day.

The director of the AP-HP confirmed that leave had been deprogrammed for many staff in his hospitals.

"But for others, we preferred that they take vacation now, before this dreadful month of November," he said on Friday.

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Prime Minister Jean Castex announced last week that days of leave not taken would be compensated between 110 and 200 euros gross.

"This second wave is more difficult to manage for hospital workers because we can no longer count on the same reinforcement of staff from other regions", explains in Le Figaro the president of the Hospital Federation of France (FHF), Frédéric Valletoux.

Emmanuel Macron was to go to the René-Dubos hospital in Pontoise (Val-d'Oise) on Friday.

With AFP

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