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Covid-19: at the Guadeloupe University Hospital, the morgue saturated, 40% of beds occupied

2021-08-18T17:34:23.587Z


Eight departments were closed in this establishment to accommodate resuscitation beds. Patients in respiratory distress should be


At the Guadeloupe University Hospital, an island in the Antilles which is currently experiencing an outbreak of the Covid epidemic, 40% of the beds are now occupied by Covid patients.

"149 of our medicine beds" "are dedicated to them", indicates this Wednesday Gérard Cotellon, the director general of the CHU.

“Only 5 are still empty.

The 46 open intensive care beds are occupied and emergencies register up to 80 passages per day, for the Covid only.

“Everyone has Covid, even those whose specialty is far from this type of pathology,” recalls Gérard Cotellon.

The pediatric service also welcomes patients affected by the virus.

"We have some 5 children hospitalized and 5 or 6 mothers", details the management of the CHU, which indicates to be mounted "up to 9 children" in recent days.

In total, 8 departments were closed to accommodate resuscitation beds.

And that promises to be insufficient.

“The other establishments will have to open sheave beds,” says Gérard Cotellon.

More than 15 deaths per day at the CHU

In addition, at the CHU de Guadeloupe, as a few days earlier in Martinique, the morgue saturated.

"We have 15 places plus a refrigerated fiery chapel which can accommodate around thirty bodies", details Gérard Cotellon, under the control of the CHU lawyer Tania Foucan.

"The Paris firefighters are opening 4 modules with 12 places for us", he announces and a refrigerated container has just been installed to cope with the rate of deaths, more than 15 per day just at the CHU, but "that does not count home deaths ”.

According to local media, funeral services are also starting to be overloaded.

New reinforcements on Friday

Due to the saturation of critical care beds, an Air Caraïbes plane must evacuate eight Covid patients in respiratory distress to France on Wednesday evening.

"It is a strategy that we have used in metropolitan France during the other waves", explained this Wednesday Lionel Lamhaut emergency doctor of the Samu of Paris who coordinates the evacuation.

The difference "is the distance and the aeronautical constraints" that are the access to electricity for the equipment and the oxygen on board.

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“The level of care for our patients is extremely high.

It is almost similar to that of the ongoing resuscitation.

The care will be continued: they will have all their treatments, and they may need blood tests if necessary, and there is a laboratory, an ultrasound machine ", and for 2 patients, there are" two nurses and a doctor planned. », Added Lionel Lamhaut.

In addition, new reinforcements of caregivers will be sent on Friday to Guadeloupe and Martinique.

These health professionals, the number of which has yet to be specified, must "take over" the 240 doctors, nurses and orderlies who arrived on site last week - and perhaps "a complement" if the volunteers are numerous enough.

Source: leparis

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