Officials of Marseille public hospitals announced on Wednesday the gradual deployment of new beds to cope with the increase in Covid-19 cases and at the same time maintain care for other patients.
"Due to the gradual increase in the number of patients, we are in the process of preparing the opening of additional capacities" in particular of intensive care and post-emergency beds, "to maintain a reception capacity for all patients. patients, ”said Jean-Olivier Arnaud, director general of Marseille University Hospitals (AP-HM) during a press conference call.
Seventeen additional beds will be deployed "in the next 15 to 20 days" in intensive care and critical care, and nine beds in post-emergency, in the face of the epidemic which "is progressing day by day".
Catch-up effect
About ten beds will also be open for the care of Covid patients who do not require resuscitation, added Jean-Olivier Arnaud, specifying that these openings will be made through the recruitment or training of additional caregivers.
“The current situation differs from that of March by the hospital activity.
The population is no longer confined and as a result hospital activity is experiencing a rebound.
In addition, the non-emergency hospital activity having been deprogrammed during the first wave, the hospitals must make a catch-up of this activity ”, also recalled the AP-HM in a press release.
"It is essential to keep the non-Covid activity that the Marseillais need".
As of September 9, 107 Covid patients were hospitalized at the AP-HM, including 23 in intensive care, against 21 and 3 on August 14, Marseille public hospitals said.
A capacity not yet reached
The situation is changing "from hour to hour", underlined Jean-Olivier Arnaud, Professor Dominique Rossi, president of the medical commission of the AP-HM, evoking for his part "a very frank accelerator last week Of the epidemic in Marseille.
The maximum capacity of Marseille hospitals is "not reached", however, recalled the officials of the AP-HM, inviting patients to continue to go to the hospital for routine and scheduled care and ensuring that no 'there was "no internal contamination of the AP-HM".
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“We are extremely vigilant.
Everyone is on the bridge to preserve this non-Covid activity ", underlines Prof. Rossi, reiterating a call to respect barrier gestures:" If all this is respected, then we think that the virus will circulate less ", explain the responsible for the AP-HM.