Unclog Ile-de-France. The first medicalized TGV evacuating from Ile-de-France, to Brittany, patients with coronavirus left Wednesday from Austerlitz station in Paris, found an AFP journalist.
Twenty-four patients are on this train, which left at 11:12 am bound for Saint-Brieuc and Brest. A second TGV must leave at 12:05 pm towards Rennes with twelve other patients, to relieve the hospitals of Ile-de-France, now the French region most affected by the Covid-19 epidemic.
"An extremely important safety valve"
Tuesday, the director general of the AP-HP, Martin Hirsch, stressed that with 870 patients of Covid-19 in intensive care, "the number of patients tangent the number of beds available" in the Ile-de-France university hospital center. "That does not mean that we are completely saturated," he nuanced during a telephone press point, ensuring that the AP-HP "continues to open beds".
VIDEO. Medicalized TGV: 20 patients evacuated from the Grand-Est to the Pays-de-la-Loire
The 36 patients transferred will be added to the 12 evacuated by helicopter last week to Tours, and to other occasional road transport. These evacuations "constitute an extremely important safety valve", affirmed for its part the medical director of crisis of the AP-HP, Pr Bruno Riou. Parisian hospitals now have just over 2,000 people in intensive care.
