With the high season and the pandemic context, the pressure exerted on the coastal health systems is strong.
And multifactorial: overcrowding of emergencies due to the tourist influx, summer closure of downstream beds in order to grant staff leave, shortage of caregivers in certain services, difficulty in recruiting replacement doctors… These recurring challenges come s' add the push of the Delta variant and the mobilization of healthcare personnel for vaccination against Covid-19.
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"Summer is a difficult period",
recognizes Dr Levraut, head of the emergency medicine department at the Nice University Hospital (Alpes-Maritimes).
There are around 350 emergency visits and 1,000 calls to Samu per day in summer, for 250 passages and 1,500 calls the rest of the year.
The Nice University Hospital, however, remains less impacted by the influx of tourists than Cannes or Fréjus, considers the doctor.
“The worst is Saint-Tropez,”
he said.
"Grit our teeth while waiting for better days"
“The teams are exhausted. But they are very professional
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