The coronavirus epidemic sets in in France against the backdrop of severe hospital malaise. "The public hospital was already under tension before Covid-19 , explains Professor Gilles Pialoux, head of the infectious diseases department at Tenon hospital in Paris. In my department, the occupancy rate is already over 98%. ” Nevertheless, the hospital is preparing to face a possible influx of patients.
"Crisis management is part of our job ," points out Agnès Ricard-Hibon, president of the French Society of Emergency Medicine. Everyone is mobilized. ” The challenge is to successfully set up an organization that responds to the emergency, without neglecting the care of other patients. "We must keep our strength to continue to treat good regular patients and protect them from the coronavirus," says Dr. Pierre Kalfon, president of the Medical Commission of Chartres hospitals.
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