A few hundred meters from the magic of the Christmas market, the pediatric reception service in Colmar, Alsace, is preparing for another night.
This first day of December was long.
That same morning, an order was given to the surgery department to postpone any non-urgent operations until the spring.
Faced with the saturation of its units, Doctor Chognot, head of the general pediatrics department, is weighing the possibility of hospitalizing children in neonatology or in neighboring adult departments.
"
And yet, our hospital is perhaps among those who are doing the best
," the management slipped to us.
Is it for this reason that, among all the requests from
Le Figaro
, only Colmar responded favorably to a request for a report?
The situation is unprecedented.
Never before has pediatrics been faced with a “triple epidemic”, with the simultaneous circulation of Covid, influenza and bronchiolitis which particularly affects infants.
On November 30, 10,000…
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