With 5,000 resuscitation beds at the start, France has risen to 10,000 beds, of which 4,273 were already occupied by Covid patients on Sunday. " From now on, we want to reach a target of 14,000 to 14,500 resuscitation beds throughout the national territory ," said Olivier Véran on Saturday evening.
To achieve this, the government must loosen four bottlenecks: find beds, but above all equip them with respirators, supply them with medicines (curare in particular is under tension) and consumables (electric syringe pumps in particular are lacking) , and of course mobilize trained staff ... Knowing that it takes 4 to 5 caregivers for a bed! Only one of the four parameters is missing in the chain, and it is impossible to function. Therein lies the difficulty.
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" But, yes it is possible. We are getting beds every day, ”says David Heard, spokesperson for ARS Île-de-France. The capital region has already won 800 intensive care beds last week,
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