Should patients positive for Covid-19 and requiring hospitalization for another reason be accommodated in a service dedicated to Covid or the medical specialty to which they belong?
The question does not arise for those requiring intubation (they are referred to intensive care - continuing care) or parturients.
For the other patients, all the CHUs did not decide the question in the same way.
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“I don't think there is one method better than another. Otherwise, it would be repeated everywhere. We all have different architectural and personnel constraints which oblige us
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summarizes Julie Durand, Director of General Affairs at the Montpellier University Hospital.
In Tours (Indre-et-Loire), the small number (to date) of patients hospitalized outside intensive care allows
"to keep the Covid + patient where the dominant pathology requires care"
, explains the general manager, Marie-Noëlle Gérain- Breuzard, who concedes a constraint:
"We do not have the means
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