Paris (AFP)
"The confinement of Ile-de-France is not current," assured the Director General of Health Jérôme Salomon on RTL on Tuesday, despite "very high tension" in hospitals linked to the Covid virus. 19.
"This measure of last resort would be offered to the government and the head of state if we had the impression that the hospital could not stand," he explained.
"We are in very strong tension, we are freeing beds (...) and we are monitoring the situation day after day", he continued.
The Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency on Monday ordered hospitals and clinics to deprogram 40% of their least urgent medical and surgical activities.
On Monday, the director general of the ARS of Ile-de-France had indicated that the hospitals in this region had 973 Covid patients, for "about 1,050 beds available" for these patients, thus placing the establishments "in a situation of very strong tension ".
At this rate, the level of 1,127 available beds previously set - and not reached to date - should be exceeded this week, he added.
The situation across the country, and in particular Ile-de-France, will be reviewed during the health defense council scheduled for Wednesday, the Ministry of Health told AFP on Monday.
Returning to the controversy of Monday, namely the bloodshed of liberal doctors after the decision of the Directorate General of Health to authorize pharmacists to order the AstraZeneca vaccine this week, but not liberal doctors, Jérôme Salomon held to "reassure" these professionals.
"They have already ordered 800,000 doses for their eligible patients, there will be 800,000 more. So there will be 1.6 million patients to be vaccinated in the next few days," he said.
Furious, the MG France union and the SML had requested the resignation of the Director General of Health.
The latter sees "in this epidermal reaction of (his) colleagues as a sign of commitment, of energy for vaccination," he said on RTL, excluding resigning.
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