1,000 more beds than before the health crisis.
This is the order made this Tuesday by the Regional Health Agency (ARS) to hospitals in Île-de-France.
She asked hospitals in the capital region "to anticipate an increase in the number of beds" for critical care with a target of 2,200 beds available to accommodate Covid-19 patients.
A way to fight against the lack of beds and staff in these services which is debated and lacking in the country since the start of the health crisis.
Before the first wave of coronavirus, just over a year ago, the capacity was 1,200 beds.
"The number of patients in critical care will cross the threshold of 1,500 patients within a few days," said the ARS on Tuesday, indicating that they were currently 1,370.
It is not giving lessons or playing any guilt whatsoever to tell the reality of the situation in Île-de-France: 1350 patients in critical care, it is already 250 + than in the 2nd wave.
Each of us can help break this course of the epidemic.
It's urgent.
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- Aurélien Rousseau (@aur_rousseau) March 23, 2021
"A first level with 1,800 beds" must be crossed in the middle of next week, added the ARS.
For the moment, 1,577 critical care beds are available for coronavirus patients alone, which on March 8 required the deprogramming of 40% of the medical and surgical activities of hospitals and clinics in the Paris region.
Patient transfers more complicated than expected
"The level of deprogramming necessary (to reach the figure of 2,200 critical care beds) is being adjusted with the establishments", assured the ARS.
“For the record, we had reached nearly 2,800 patients in intensive care during the first wave (late March early April 2020) when transfers to other regions had taken place.
We are still far from it, but this time, the hospital is full, and other pathologies are also present, ”recalls the ARS to Le Parisien.
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According to Les Echos, this would require the deprogramming of 80% of medical and surgical activities.
Information that the ARS has not confirmed, contacted by the Parisian.
A time presented as the alternative solution to relieve hospitals, the transfers of patients envisaged for a time to relieve the Ile-de-France are ultimately more complicated than expected.
Very few patients in intensive care are sufficiently stable and families are reluctant to give their consent.
The incidence rate for 20-50 year olds is above 800/100000 in 93 and 700 in IdF.
Resuscitators report more and more cases of young patients without co-morbidity entering shifts.
The Covid is not just the story of the most fragile or the oldest, it is the story of all of us.
- Aurélien Rousseau (@aur_rousseau) March 23, 2021
France currently has 4,634 Covid-19 patients treated in intensive care, approaching the peak of the second wave of autumn (4,900 on November 16).
In Ile-de-France, according to figures stopped on Saturday, the incidence rate has soared to 551 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the last seven days, well above the maximum alert threshold of 250.