Monopolized by the Covid, hospitals and clinics received two million fewer patients than last year between mid-March and the end of June, according to the Hospital Federation of France (FHF), which sees "
no catching up
" of activity until the end of August.
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The first confinement was accompanied by a massive postponement of surgical and medical activities, in order to free as many beds as possible for Covid-19 patients.
In three months, it is thus “
two million stays which were not carried out
” in the public and private health establishments, according to a study of the FHF consulted Monday November 23 by AFP.
More than half
relate to
“
minor
” surgery: compared to the same period in 2019, nearly 1.1 million outpatient (without overnight stay in hospital) or “
minimally invasive
” procedures are
missing
, of which approximately 190,000 cataract operations and 140,000 diagnostic colonoscopies.
There are also some 330,000 more "
heavy
"
interventions
, including a thousand organ transplants (especially kidneys), and half a million consultations and hospitalizations, including about 4,000 infarcts and 5,000 strokes.
The data for the months of July and August show "
no catching up in the months which followed
" the deconfinement, despite "
a weak tremor in outpatient during the summer
".
The FHF stresses, however, that this “
first global and national estimate of the impact
” of the epidemic is based on “
non-consolidated data, with a lack of completeness and a risk of overestimation of the decline in activity
”.