A patient suffering from Covid was transferred Sunday from Hauts-de-France to a German hospital, a first for this region, a few days after the first transfers abroad of this second wave of the epidemic, between the Grand-Est and Germany, the Regional Health Agency announced.
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This patient, hospitalized in intensive care at the hospital of Valenciennes (North), was transferred Sunday morning by helicopter to the hospital of Münster (in the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia, west), said the ARS des Hauts -de-France in a press release, specifying that it was the “
first medical evacuation in the Hauts-de-France region
”.
"
Other transfers from Hauts-de-France to Germany could be made in the coming days
", in order to prevent the intensive care units of hospitals in the region, which are experiencing "
major tensions
", particularly in terms of of human resources, do not reach saturation, according to the ARS.
Thursday and Friday, several hospitals in the Grand-Est region had similarly transferred patients with Covid-19 to Germany to "
anticipate any risk of saturation
".
Moselle patients had been transferred to hospitals in the Land of Sarre, bordering the Moselle.
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This first transfer from Hauts-de-France, a region facing a "
very active circulation of the virus
", comes at a time when the intensive care units are not yet completely saturated but the forecasts for the evolution of the number of intensive care patients. in the region "
remain worrying
", notes the ARS.
Taking into account the effects of confinement, these forecasts "
establish a need for the care of more than 600 Covid-19 resuscitating patients in mid-November - beyond the peak reached during the first wave with 511 Covid patients on April 5
" .
The number of intensive care beds has already increased by more than 60% in the region, from 460 to 747. It is expected to exceed 800 in the coming days.
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These transfers are carried out with the agreement of the families of the patients, who will benefit if necessary "
from support in terms of on-site transport, accommodation or translation
", underlines the
press
release from the ARS.
During the first wave of the epidemic, in the spring, 330 patients from Grand-Est, one of the regions most affected by the disease, had been transferred to other French regions and abroad, by plane military, helicopter or medical TGV in particular.
