at the Delafontaine hospital in Saint-Denis, “we spend our days transferring patients”

While resuscitation services are reaching saturation point in Île-de-France, at the Delafontaine hospital center in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), patient transfers have resumed.

“We spend our days transferring patients, whether they are critical care patients, ie intensive care patients, or conventional hospital patients, and we manage to transfer them to the other end of the line. ‘Ile-de-France”, explains, this Wednesday March 10, 2021, at our colleagues from franceinfo, Mathias Wargon, emergency doctor and head of the adult emergency department and SMUR at Delafontaine hospital.

For him, it is necessary to increase the reception capacities in intensive care : “When you’re up against the wall, you have to increase the number of beds, that’s for sure.” “I don’t really believe in the effect of the curfew” he continued. “From a medical point of view, the technique is to reduce contamination. It can be confinement, it can be much stricter barrier measures. It can be more telework”, he explains. “However, we can clearly see that in Île-de-France, traffic jams are the same as in normal times, that people work normally. So we are in an all-or-nothing strategy”.

The Paris region has passed the milestone of 1,000 intensive care patients. On Monday March 8, the Regional Health Agency asked Ile-de-France hospitals to deprogram 40% of their operations.

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