"Deprogram the maximum of surgical and medical activities that can be", asked the regional health agency (ARS) of Ile-de-France.
From Monday, health establishments in the region will only take care of urgent care, due to the influx of Covid patients.
Wave-submersion alert in Ile-de-France: with 4,044 Covid patients hospitalized on Thursday evening, including 732 in critical care, "the situation is very worrying", underlines the ARS in a message sent to all hospitals and clinics in the region , and of which AFP has obtained a copy.
A peak scheduled for late January / early February
“Level 2”, corresponding to “50% of critical care beds occupied by Covid patients”, will be taken “in the coming days”. The establishments are also under "very strong tensions on human resources", in particular nurses, and the "epidemic peak on the flu". The ARS therefore asked "to deprogram as much of the surgical and medical activities scheduled for next week as possible". Certain specialties such as oncology, transplants, cardiac surgery, pediatrics and nephrology are “for the moment” preserved.
“Necessary” sacrifices in order to “reassign staff and open new beds to accommodate new Covid patients”, knowing that “the peak of the wave will arrive at the end of January / beginning of February” according to the forecasts of the Institut Pasteur, “this which means that the establishments must hold out for several more weeks ”.
The AP-HP faces "extremely strong tensions"
The Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP) had already ordered their department heads on Wednesday to "limit the activity scheduled for next week to treatments for which a vital prognosis is at stake, with the maintenance as far as possible transplantation activities ”.
The largest French hospital group is facing "extremely strong tensions", as evidenced by "critical care beds all occupied", but also the number of calls to the Samu "considerably higher than usual" at the end of the day. 'year and "the number of stretcher beds in emergency departments regularly above 100 in the morning".
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