The French army has started to dismantle the field hospital deployed in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), which no longer receives coronavirus patients, to deploy ten resuscitation beds in Mayotte, confirmed the Minister of the Armed Forces on Monday.
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The Military Resuscitation Element (EMR) of the Armed Forces Health Service (SSA) " will be completely dismantled by May 21, " Florence Parly told the Defense Committee of the National Assembly, referring to " the end of a stage ”.
Of the thirty beds that EMR could accommodate to relieve hospitals in the Grand Est, " ten resuscitation beds will be deployed in Mayotte hospital and will be delivered by two A400 M rotations by the end of the month May, ”she added. These statements confirm the announcement Friday by the Minister of Overseas Annick Girardin that " additional means " would be sent to Mayotte. Friday, the archipelago 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.
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Composed of elements usually used during external operations for acts of combat surgery care, the deployment of EMR in the East was a first on the national territory to treat civilian patients in respiratory distress situations acute in the context of the coronavirus epidemic, of which the Haut-Rhin was one of the main French foci. The director of the Regional Health Authority (ARS) in Mayotte, the former Minister Dominique Voynet, had also stressed on Thursday that the archipelago, "out of time " of the metropolis, " needed the measures deployed in Alsace there two months ago . "
