Mayors of the Gier valley, in the south of the Loire department, are asking the State to "
install military sanitary means to make up for the lack of nursing staff
" in the twenty or so municipalities in this territory which has been severely affected by the coronavirus, AFP believes.
"
We call for help so that our caregivers are supported and we ask the state and the government for exceptional emergency aid to be provided to our territory to make up for the lack of exhausted and affected caregivers. by covid-19
”, they underline in a letter sent Thursday to the prefect of the Loire, Catherine Séguin.
Aid identical to the Mulhouse region in spring
"
We ask to benefit from an aid identical to that which was provided last spring to the region of Mulhouse at the heart of the crisis: the installation of military medical means
", continue the 21 mayors, gathered within the Intercommunal Syndicate from the Pays du Gier.
Régis Cadegros, 1st deputy mayor of Saint-Chamond (Loire) and chairman of the supervisory board of the Center hospitalier du Gier, describes to AFP an “
exponential curve for the spread of the virus, for which 130 patients are already being treated in the establishment, with an incidence rate close to 900 for the whole of Gier
”.
"
We must be inspired by what happened in the great East, with the establishment of a military field hospital
", he insists.
All patients will no longer be admitted within 15 days
Vincent Bony, mayor of Rive-de-Gier (Loire), for his part affirms that "at the
current rate of progression of the virus, all patients who require it can no longer be admitted to intensive care in the Gier d 'Hospital. here 15 days
”.
“We
will have to sort it out.
It's dramatic,
”he laments.
Contacted by AFP, the management of the establishment confirms that "
the staff is very busy and won over by fatigue
".
“
Next week we will receive a reinforcement of five nurses and orderlies from the mutualist clinic of Saint-Étienne,
” she adds.
For two weeks, the hospital located in Saint-Chamond has prohibited visits, with some exceptions, "
following cases of contamination from visitors who do not respect barrier gestures
".
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