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Coronavirus: 36 patients from Nancy and Mulhouse evacuated by medical TGV to Bordeaux

2020-03-29T09:24:24.752Z


Operations of this type have multiplied for several in the country to relieve the hospitals submerged by the cases of Covid-19.


This national operation continues. Placed under high surveillance, the stations of Nancy and Mulhouse welcomed the first of the 36 patients in intensive care in the Grand Est in the early hours of the day on Sunday, who were transferred by two medical TGVs to New Aquitaine. The two trains left at 11 a.m.

This evacuation to a still relatively unspoiled region of the coronavirus epidemic is the most important ever carried out since the "wave" swept over eastern France.

In Nancy, where 24 patients were boarded on this train, the first two arrived in ambulances around 7.20 am and were immediately transferred by protected nursing staff from head to toe inside the station, placed under guard. guard, found AFP journalists. A sea of ​​ambulances from the Samu and firefighters then took over.

In Mulhouse, where another medicalized TGV received 12 patients, six of them left the field hospital installed by the armies around 7 a.m. and a seventh, the emergencies of the neighboring civilian hospital to also reach the station , according to an AFP photographer. The first embarkation on the train was made at 7:35 am.

These evacuations aim to relieve the hospitals of the Grand Est, one of the regions most heavily affected by the epidemic with on Saturday 3,777 people hospitalized, including 786 in intensive care, and 757 deaths.

"Free up beds"

“We must free up beds, it is absolutely essential to give air to the resuscitation services. We are still in a continuous increase in the number of patients ”, exhorted the head of emergencies of the regional hospital center (CHR) of Metz, François Braun.

Patients from Mulhouse must be distributed in the afternoon from Poitiers station to hospitals in this city, La Rochelle, Niort and Angoulême and those who left Nancy, from Bordeaux and Bayonne stations to establishments in these cities but also in Libourne and Pau.

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They are patients "in a state of being transferred, without complications in progress […] They are always intubated, ventilated, asleep and they do not need to be put on their stomachs to breathe", according to the doctor Braun.

Dozens of patients have already been evacuated in recent days from the Grand Est by civil and military means, land and air, to hospitals in other French regions but also in Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg. In particular during a very first medical TGV transfer on Thursday between the Grand Est and hospitals in the Pays-de-Loire.

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