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Covid-19: 30% of unscheduled operations in Île-de-France

2020-10-15T09:04:11.146Z


Aurélien Rousseau, Director General of the Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency, was the guest of the Grand Interview of France Inter this Thursday, October 15.


Hospitals in Île-de-France have been instructed to deprogram "

up to 30%

" of their activity to make room for Covid patients, the director of the regional health agency (ARS) said Thursday, October 15 Ile-de-France, Aurélien Rousseau, on France Inter.

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"

In Île-de-France, more than 46% of intensive care beds are occupied by Covid patients, it is 531 patients, but unlike the first wave, the whole hospital is under pressure

" , indicated Mr. Rousseau.

"

We have 1,628 patients in medicine beds and we also have Covid patients in follow-up care beds, in psychiatry beds, and therefore it is a form of high tide that affects everyone simultaneously

".

Also, “

since Tuesday we have instructed the establishments to deprogram part of the activity up to 30%

,” he said.

This means that you may have had an operation, a hip or knee prosthesis, which was already planned for April, which we will again postpone

”.

"Do not leave a blind spot"

The curfew will only have an impact in "

15 days to 3 weeks

", he said.

"

We know that within 15 days, we will have between 800 and 1000 patients in Île-de-France in intensive care, our capacity is 1200, so we know that we will deprogram even more, that the caregivers will be on the bridge, that the caregivers will fight while they are for a lot exhausted, so it is also for them that these decisions are made.

"

The curfew responds to "

the obsession not to leave a blind spot: what we have observed, with the incidence of 800 (positive cases) out of 100,000 in Paris among 20-30 year olds, is that we had a blind spot in our tracking policies, it was the private sphere, the festive moments

”.

Schools, universities and companies represent, according to him, "

60% of clusters, but these 60% is only 10% of contaminations

".

"

We can better identify clusters in a company, in a school or at the university and basically, the fact that we do not identify many in bars, that means that we cannot find, control and to pass prevention messages

”.

Aurélien Rousseau defended the government's choice not to ban travel for All Saints' Day by recalling that “

we did not have major movements of contamination in the spring.

At the time of confinement, many people left, it did not make an outbreak in the other regions

”.

Source: lefigaro

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