The Ministry of the Armed Forces will deploy 37 military medical personnel in Guadeloupe to help the island, placed Wednesday in “
maximum alert zone
” in the face of a second epidemic wave which promises to be more deadly than the first.
"
In Guadeloupe, we are deploying 37 soldiers to operate up to 8 resuscitation beds: 29 nursing staff from the Army Health Service (SSA) as well as 8 soldiers from the Army medical regiment
", announced Wednesday evening on Twitter the Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly.
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These nursing staff will join the Pointe-à-Pitre University Hospital Center (CHU) at the end of the week "
to support the department in the management of the crisis linked to the pandemic
" of the new coronavirus, according to the ministry.
"
Sixteen dead (eight in intensive care and eight out of intensive care) and more than 1000 cases in one week
", a record number since the start of the epidemic, recalled Tuesday evening the prefecture of Guadeloupe, bringing to 42 the total number of deaths in the archipelago.
Above all, "
patients are always arriving faster
", according to Dr Bruno Jarrige, head of the Covid cell at the CHU de Guadeloupe.
“
We are forced to open a fourth sector (between 8 and 10 beds).
But since the human resource is not available, we deprogram the surgery.
"
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