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Covid: Paris Hospitals will postpone 20% of surgical operations "from this weekend"

2020-09-24T13:44:36.932Z


The direction of the Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP) announced Thursday to be " forced to carry out the first deprogramming " of surgical operations " from this weekend ", in the face of the influx of patients of the coronavirus in its intensive care units. Read also: Covid-19: are hospitals at risk of being saturated? The number of “ Covid patients ” hospitalized at the AP-HP rose


The direction of the Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP) announced Thursday to be "

forced to carry out the first deprogramming

" of surgical operations "

from this weekend

", in the face of the influx of patients of the coronavirus in its intensive care units.

Read also: Covid-19: are hospitals at risk of being saturated?

The number of “

Covid patients

” hospitalized at the AP-HP rose from 150 at the beginning of September to 330 on Wednesday and should reach 600 at the end of the month, the share of patients admitted to intensive care following the same curve: 50 there are three weeks, 132 yesterday and probably more than 200 next week, said deputy director, François Crémieux, during a conference call.

With more than 25% of critical care beds occupied by cases of coronavirus, “

the deprogramming that we wanted to avoid at all costs are now necessary

” and the AP-HP “

will be forced to carry out first to from this weekend, to be able to welcome Covid patients in intensive care,

”he explained.

This will represent “

around 20%

” of the planned operations, in priority those concerning “

patients whose treatment can be postponed without risk of loss of opportunity

”.

The institution now hopes that the new restrictions announced Wednesday by the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, will make it possible to halt the epidemic rebound.

The challenge for the next 15 days will be not to have to switch to 50% of unscheduled operations

,” added François Crémieux.

The director general of the AP-HP, Martin Hirsch, nevertheless stressed that these “

adjustments of scheduled activities

” were not of the same order as “

the massive cancellation

” decided at the national level just before the confinement in mid-March.

Source: lefigaro

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