Record attendance in emergencies, risk of saturation in intensive care and lack of staff: Marseille hospitals are "
one of the
university
hospitals most affected in mainland France
" by the 4th wave of Covid-19, their leaders lamented Monday, August 23.
The Public Assistance-Hospitals of Marseille (AP-HM) wanted to sound the alarm on Monday, on the eve of the evacuation to Strasbourg of two new patients in intensive care, including a 22-year-old.
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"
The Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region has an extremely high incidence rate, roughly double the national average
", at 587 / 100,000 inhabitants, which "
partly explains the situation in our hospitals
", began the new director general of the AP-HM François Crémieux, surrounded by twenty department heads.
"
The AP-HM in terms of the number of hospitalized patients is indeed one of the most impacted CHUs in mainland France
", insisted the head of resuscitation of Timone Lionel Velly, specifying however that the Marseille situation remained "
largely behind
" that of the Polynesia or the Antilles.
89% of patients have not been vaccinated
Of the 67 patients in Covid intensive care, 89% have not been vaccinated, the average age in intensive care has dropped to 54 years, with a ratio of women higher than previous waves at around 50/50.
And the AP-HM warns that it will hardly be able to go beyond these 67 intensive care beds dedicated to Covid patients, due to the leave of caregivers and difficulties in recruiting, nurses in particular.
The emergencies are in a “
real crisis situation
” with record peaks of activity of nearly 600 patients over 24 hours, with Covid and non-Covid patients during this summer period.
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And the return to Marseille will see tourists leave but a large number of Marseillais return from vacations from North African countries highly impacted by the Covid-19. "
We have very strong concerns about what will happen
", alarmed Professor Jean-Luc Jouve, president of the medical committee of the establishment. The latter also pointed out the very strong disparities with an overrepresentation in intensive care of the inhabitants of the most disadvantaged districts, in the north of the city.
In the same way, vaccination remains quite low there because of the difficulties of information, the deficit of vaccination centers and the lack of public transport but also of YouTube videos of Didier Raoult, estimated the Pr Jouve: “
The IHU (directed by Didier Raoult, editor's note) perhaps bears some responsibility for the fact that in the northern districts, we have a fairly miserable vaccination coverage close to 30%,
”he said. Globally favorable "
to the conviction more than to the brutal obligation
" of vaccination, Didier Raoult is in open conflict with the management of the AP-HM, which does not wish the extension of the controversial infectious disease specialist, beyond his retirement at the end of August.