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We are deploying home care, by reactivating a home oxygen network to relieve the pressure
", declared the Minister of Health Olivier Véran during a hearing in the Senate on the occasion of the passage of the project of law on the sanitary pass before the upper house.
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We are able to take care of up to 15,000 patients with oxygen at home
," said the minister.
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While nearly 24,000 people are currently hospitalized in France for Covid, the executive has deployed several measures to try to stem the Omicron wave, including home oxygen therapy.
If this device has existed for a long time, it was adapted to Covid-19 after “
season 1 of the pandemic
”, notes doctor Jean-Louis Dubost, head of the medical-surgical resuscitation service in Pontoise.
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The goal is to keep patients at home as much as possible to avoid hospitalization
," says the doctor.
If the device allows a decongestion of the beds, “
we don’t…
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