They treated the first Covid patients from France in Colmar. A colossal effort that they would hardly be able to provide 2 years later. “In this 5-bed space, we always have 2 beds that are closed because we don’t have the staff to do so. What drives you crazy is not being able to accommodate all the patients. We are no longer able to go to the 60 sheave beds we had on the first wave at all ”. It would take 40 nurse anesthetists, there is a shortage of 10. However, patients keep flowing in intensive care. About 80% of patients are not vaccinated. The caregivers take it upon themselves: “It’s difficult, we don’t understand. There are almost few vaccinated people who are with us. That means that the vaccine is effective and that makes it possible not to land in intensive care ”. Their job is physical and repetitive. Each patient must be returned several times a day, his state of health scrutinized 24 hours a day. A trip to the emergency room and we understand that the flow is not about to stop. Céline Gil, nurse, must isolate infected patients, clean, treat and start again. “It’s an overflow, it’s been going on for 2 years. We are asked to do a lot of things. We are also asked for a part of the household, it is not necessarily our role ”. For the department head, this partitioning system for Covid patients will not stand up. “We are going to have patients who will come for something else and who will also be positive for the Omicron variant. So, solutions will have to be found again until the moment when we will have to mix Covid and non-Covid patients, because we will have no choice ”. At the other end of the hospital, the corridors are much more empty. And for good reason, there is no longer any staff to operate. In the thoracic surgery department, the time to have an operation for lung cancer, for example, is one and a half months. Since January 1, between 20 and 50% of operations have been canceled, all services combined. TF1 | Report J. Devambez, M. Merle, S. Jou
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