The army field hospital deployed at the foot of the civilian hospital in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) to relieve it in the face of the coronavirus epidemic currently has no more patients due to the decrease in the number of seriously ill patients , said on Saturday May 9 the armies.
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“ There are currently no more patients at the EMR-SSA (Military Resuscitation Unit of the Armed Forces Health Service) in Mulhouse. The last patient was transferred on May 7, "a military source told AFP, without specifying how many beds were still installed. " To my knowledge, there are no more patients but still beds, ready to be refilled if ever we needed them, " said Haut-Rhin Prefect Laurent Touvet, during a press conference.
An already dismantled span
With an initial capacity of 30 beds, one of the three spans of this equipment installed in a few days in March on the parking lot of the public hospital, had been dismantled on April 18, in view of the improvement in the health situation in the Haut -Rhine.
Its possible complete dismantling " is a decision that is taken at government level to see where in France we need this hospital the most and whether its presence is still necessary in Mulhouse or not, " explained Laurent Touvet.
Two days before the start of the deconfinement, the prefect of Haut-Rhin underlined the difficulty of finding a " balance between the situation which is improving but which one is not sure that it has definitely improved ".
In addition, the night curfew, which has been in effect since March in Mulhouse, will stop Sunday evening with the start of deconfinement. " But the rule of no longer gathering more than ten people applies to Mulhouse as elsewhere, " warned the prefect.