There has been a lot of criticism of France's under-equipment in intensive care beds, in particular against Germany.
But things are not so simple: the Court of Auditors, judges that
"the differences of the two models make comparisons difficult"
, the figures not counting the same thing.
In reality, when the pandemic broke out, France had 5,433 “sheave” beds, to which must be added 8,192 continuous surveillance beds and 5,955 intensive care beds.
That is a total of 19,580 critical care beds, bringing together nearly 54,000 full-time equivalents of medical and paramedical personnel, at a cost of 7.2 billion euros.
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So much for the numbers.
On the organization of the system, the Court is much more critical.
On the one hand, the reorganization of services to cope with the massive influx of patients came at the cost of massive deprogramming, resulting in a loss of opportunities for non-Covid patients with the impact
"today unknown and potentially considerable"
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