The two medicalized TGVs departed Sunday morning March 29 from the Grand Est to evacuate 36 patients from Covid-19 to New Aquitaine arrived in the middle of the afternoon, one in Poitiers and the other in Bordeaux, found AFP journalists.
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The train that left Nancy at the end of the morning with 24 patients on board entered Bordeaux station shortly after 3 p.m., some of which had been sealed off by a large police force. Twenty ambulances and dozens of nursing staff in full white coats were waiting there to direct them to establishments in the Gironde capital, but also Libourne, Pau and Bayonne.
New Aquitaine is still, for the moment, among the areas least affected by the epidemic. ALEXANDRE MARCHI / AFP
Another train from Mulhouse arrived at around 3:45 p.m. at Futuroscope station in Poitiers, with 12 patients on board. Four of them were taken by ambulance to the Poitiers University Hospital, which had already received six patients the day before, who had arrived by plane.
Four other patients were helicoptered to La Rochelle on Sunday and four others left by road to Niort and Angoulême.
In total, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region will have welcomed 54 patients from the Grand Est since Friday, the most important evacuations carried out since the start of the epidemic in France.
The goal is to unclog hospitals in the Grand Est, one of the regions most heavily affected by the epidemic which on Saturday included 3,777 people hospitalized, including 786 in intensive care, and 757 deaths.
A situation that contrasts with that of New Aquitaine, which is still, for the moment, among the areas least affected by the epidemic, with 490 hospitalizations in progress recorded on Saturday, including 127 people in intensive care or intensive care.
On Friday, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region had 188 intensive care beds available on 561 places ALEXANDRE MARCHI / AFP
