The tension is increasing in the hospitals of Île-de-France.
The threshold of 1,000 Covid patients in intensive care was crossed on Tuesday in the region, said the Regional Health Agency (ARS).
This is the first time that such a threshold has been exceeded in Île-de-France since November 18, during the second confinement.
In detail, the Ile-de-France establishments totaled 1,018 “Covid patients hospitalized in critical care” according to the latest report updated Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. and released at the end of the day by the ARS, against 964 the day before at the same time.
40% of operations deprogrammed to free up beds
On Monday, the agency ordered hospitals and clinics to deprogram 40% of their activities to free up more beds.
The goal is to recover enough qualified caregivers to "arm" if necessary up to 1,577 critical care beds in the course of next week.
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: Ile-de-France hospitals and clinics called on to deprogram 40
% of operations to free up beds
If the tension increases on hospital services in the region, the hypothesis of a reconfinement would not (yet) be on the table.
"The confinement of Ile-de-France is not current," assured the Director General of Health, Jérôme Salomon, on the eve of a new health defense council around the Head of State .
"This measure of last resort would be offered to the government and to the Head of State if we had the impression that the hospital could not hold out and that we were faced with a major risk of not being able to welcome seriously ill patients. the hospital, ”he continued.
"Six weeks of maximum mobilization"
Asked about the expression "we must hold four to six weeks" pronounced by Emmanuel Macron on March 1, Jérôme Salomon insisted on "six weeks of tension" to come, "six weeks of maximum mobilization for all our fellow citizens".
"We have a crucial period which is currently opening, effectively six weeks, where we are in this race against the epidemic, at the same time accelerating vaccination and asking the French for maximum mobilization," he said. warned.
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The government had given up last week to impose a weekend confinement in Ile-de-France, the most populous region of the country (12 million inhabitants), in particular in the face of the reluctance of the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo and the regional president Valérie Pécresse.
This measure was limited to Pas-de-Calais, after the coast of the Alpes-Maritimes and Dunkirk.
