The situation is worrying in Mayotte. "Additional resources" will be sent to the island, including a field hospital and additional staff, announced Friday the Minister of Overseas Annick Girardin during a Facebook Live channel on Overseas the 1st.
The overseas department of the Indian Ocean, where "the virus is actively circulating", in the words of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, will not be unfinished from May 11. It is the only French territory in this situation.
Friday, Mayotte had 890 reported cases, 11 deaths, 35 people hospitalized (including 9 in intensive care), but the territory, where 82% of the population lives below the poverty line, is weakened by a poor health supply.
"Additional health forces", on the order of "100 people" will be sent on the spot, said the minister.
Patients evacuated to Reunion
"We need staff and equipment," recognized the director of Mayotte ARS Dominique Voynet the day before, during a press point with some media, referring to the arrival "around May 15" of one of the "Modules" of the field hospital of the army health service, which had been mobilized in the Haut-Rhin.
The director of the ARS also pointed out that medical evacuations of Covid or non-Covid patients were taking place “every day” towards La Réunion, to increase the capacity of hospital beds, more in medicine than in intensive care, because it there are "very few serious cases".
Towards an "epidemic conflagration"?
"We are the French department that may be facing an epidemic conflagration," she continued, while the deconfinement is already "de facto" according to her, especially since the start of Ramadan.
For his part, the deputy LR of Mayotte Mansour Kamardine considers that the confinement was "necessary" but that he "participated in potentiating progressively the humanitarian, security, economic and therefore ultimately social" difficulties of the territory.
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Noting that "the fragile Mahoran economy is on the ground, on the verge of collapse", and that "half of the population of Mayotte was not able to respect confinement and will not be more tomorrow, given precarious living conditions ”, he calls for the deconfinement of Mayotte“ next week ”.
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