“We are ready, use us!”, The cry of the private sector to fight against the coronavirus

In Vienne (Isère) south of Lyon, the Trénel clinic is ready ... but still waiting for Covid patients! Equipped with 12 operating theaters, 3 MRIs and 2 scanners, this large private establishment, which performs 15,000 operations per year, has canceled for more than a week everything that was not urgent. At the same time, the clinic has adapted its blocks to resuscitation rooms, installed its most recent respirators, trained its staff, separated the patient flows into two sealed circuits, Covid and others, etc.

“We are ready, we have created nine resuscitation beds and a hospital site with oxygenation and monitoring. Our nine anesthetists and resuscitators are mobilized and very competent, ” insists Alexis Nogier, surgeon and CEO of the establishment. Even on the problematic supply of masks, the Trénel clinic had anticipated and had three weeks of inventory.

Do not repeat the drama of the Bataclan, where we had submerged the public hospitals, while the private was waiting from 11 pm in its blocks

But all these efforts, for the moment, are useless. "We can make a major contribution to public health

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