Faced with the saturation of hospitals in Martinique due to Covid-19, the army has installed emergency hospital capacities in the CHU of Fort-de-France, with 10 intensive care beds since August 9, which will be increased to 20 beds in mid-August, the army staff announced on Friday August 13.
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This “
military resuscitation module
” (MMR) is made up of 56 soldiers, doctors, nurses, orderlies from the Army Health Service and the Army Medical Regiment.
Its first ten beds are already occupied.
"The same efficiency" as in Mulhouse
“
Faced with the urgency of the situation in the West Indies, the armies are planning to send additional MMR capacity by mid-August, making it possible to increase military resuscitation capacities to 20 beds at the CHU of Fort-de. -France
”, explained the staff.
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"
This military hospital will exist with exactly the same efficiency as what had been done in Mulhouse during the first wave, that is to say at least twenty resuscitation beds equipped, armed,
" the minister told the press on Thursday. of Health Olivier Véran.
The West Indies are currently overwhelmed by an unprecedented epidemic wave, with incidence rates approaching 2,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Martinique and Guadeloupe are now completely re-defined in an attempt to slow down the arrival of patients at the hospital, where several dozen additional resuscitation beds are already open, sometimes installed even in operating theaters, as at the CHU de Guadeloupe in the days future.
Patients to the metropolis from Saturday
To relieve the Fort-de-France hospital, six patients must be evacuated from Martinique to Paris this weekend.
In Martinique, Air Caraïbes will "
send a plane on behalf of the Ministry
" of Health, the boss of the airline, Marc Rochet, announced on LCI.
The device must "
be in place on Saturday
" and "
bring six patients
" to metropolitan France in order "
to alleviate the burden on the hospital of Fort-de-France in terms of resuscitation,
" he added.
A health source confirmed to AFP that "
the plane leaving to pick them up took off today
", slipping in passing that "
there will be other round trips
".