They are 240 to have answered the call of Olivier Véran to go to support the medical teams in Guadeloupe and Martinique.
These metropolitan health workers will leave for the West Indies on Tuesday, August 10, announced the director general of ARS Hauts-de-France, Benoît Vallet.
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The back-up caregivers come from 9 metropolitan regions: Île-de-France (64 volunteers), Hauts-de-France (30 volunteers), Grand Est (28 volunteers), Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes ( 27 volunteers), Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (13 volunteers), Brittany (15), Center-Val-de-Loire (11), Nouvelle-Aquitaine (23), Normandy (15) and Pays- de-Loire (15).
Among the medical specialties, there are in particular emergency doctors, general practitioners, resuscitation doctors but also laboratory technicians to carry out PCR tests.
According to the ARS of Hauts-de-France, this collective will go to the West Indies "
to support the teams, for a period of two weeks
".
Sunday, August 8, the Minister of Health called on caregivers in mainland France to come and help overseas.
Friday, August 6, the prefecture of Guadeloupe and the ARS announced a situation which continues to "
deteriorate very strongly
" with an "
unprecedented number
" of intensive care admissions, despite the establishment of confinement last Wednesday.
The vaccination rate in Martinique and Guadeloupe is well below that of the metropolitan population, at 17%.