More and more patients, beds that are becoming scarce ... In Seine-Saint-Denis as elsewhere, the equation has not changed between the first and the second wave of Covid.
"This wave is less violent, it's true," notes an emergency doctor from the Robert-Ballanger hospital in Aulnay-sous-Bois.
But it goes up, it goes up, and we do not know where it will stop.
And the big difference with the first wave is that we continue to welcome other patients, that we cannot send home.
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Like other practitioners in the department, this doctor claims that a “transfer unit” be set up by the Regional Health Agency (ARS), to find beds beyond the borders of 93. “Currently, we already transfers the most serious patients, those who are in intensive care.
But there are the others, who are elderly, who need oxygen, care… And for whom we also lack beds.
The department can no longer absorb new patients.
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A hundred beds for 1.6 million inhabitants
On Thursday, the Ballanger hospital had about fifty beds occupied by patients with Covid.
“The day before we opened 7 more, they were full in two hours.
And we found ourselves again not knowing where to put the new cases.
In any case, this is not new: Seine-Saint-Denis suffers from a deficit of intensive care beds and conventional medicine.
And that has not changed since the spring, ”notes the emergency physician.
The 93 has a hundred resuscitation beds for 1.6 million inhabitants.
Hit hard by the first wave of Covid, Seine-Saint-Denis had, in the middle of last week, the lowest incidence rate in the inner suburbs (372 positive inhabitants per 100,000 people), but a rate of positivity higher than the regional average (21% of people tested positive, against 17.5% at the Ile-de-France scale).
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On the side of the Regional Health Agency (ARS), we recall the objective of 2,000 additional beds dedicated to Covid patients by next Thursday in hospitals and clinics in Ile-de-France.
“If we have to make transfers in general medicine, we will do it, but it is in intensive care that there is the most tensions.
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