The first Ile-de-France patients were transferred this Saturday outside the Ile-de-France in order to relieve the critical tension on the hospitals in this region.

“Unfortunately, the very clear brake can only be given by extremely hard confinement,” said Jean-François Timsit, head of department at the Parisian hospital Bichat, on Saturday on Europe 1. 

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In Île-de-France, the threshold of 1,100 patients in intensive care has been reached, which corresponds to the peak recorded in these services during the second wave of Covid-19 at the end of last year.

"We do not see a solution without a very clear braking action and unfortunately the very clear braking action can only be given by extremely hard confinement", warns Jean-François Timsit, head of the medical and infectious resuscitation service at the Parisian hospital Bichat, Saturday on Europe 1. "Given the increase in the current incidence, we will be called upon and in great difficulty in the next 10 days", he adds, "because the Today's contaminations cause patients who will arrive in intensive care in 10 to 15 days. "

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"We are really at the limit of the system"

Jean-François Timsit admittedly recognizes that "the decision of confinement is extremely complex to take" because of "all the consequences that it can have".

But for him, "unfortunately, here we are up to the wall".

"We are really at the limit of the system. We have already deprogrammed and we already have closed operating theaters with nurse anesthetists who manage a certain number of critical care patients outside the open intensive care beds", laments the caregiver.

Every day, in his department, no less than five to six patients thus require critical care.

"The situation is only getting worse: it is not a gradual rise like it was a week or two ago, but an increase in the acceleration" of the number of admissions, he says of his hospital.

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While three Ile-de-France patients were transferred this Saturday to Angers, Nantes and Le Mans, Jean-François Timsit does not think that this strategy of transfers between regions is sufficient.

"There is really a cry of alarm," he blurted out.