Three first Covid-19 patients in intensive care in Ile-de-France are transferred this Saturday by helicopter to hospitals in western France, said Frédéric Adnet, director of the Samu de Seine-Saint-Denis.
These patients are evacuated to Nantes, Angers and Le Mans.
“At least four other patients” will be transferred on Sunday, he added.
Objective: to prevent resuscitation services from overflowing in Ile-de-France, the latter receiving a new patient with Covid-19 every 12 minutes.
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In order for these patients to be transferred, they must “be in a stable condition” and “the families have given their consent”.
Moreover, if it were decided, a more massive evacuation of patients by TGV would only take place "in the middle of next week" because there is "a huge logistics to put in place", recalled Frédéric Adnet.
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Medical evacuations to relieve hospitals
Several massive transfer operations for patients with Covid-19 are in preparation, like those already undertaken from Hauts-de-France to Belgian hospitals in recent days.
A similar device had already been put in place last year, at the height of the epidemic.
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