2021-03-24T20:01:55.000+01:00
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In the Timone intensive care unit, nurses are busy cleaning a box that has just been released. They know it: a new one will arrive in a few hours or even a few minutes. Every day, for several weeks, the Marseille staff have been juggling so as not to reach saturation and continue to welcome the sick. “We manage to free up one bed per day, two from time to time, to welcome new Covid and non-Covid patients. But we feel the tension gradually increased and we will have difficulty dealing with a large influx of patients” , warns Dr Julien Carvelli.
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Since one, nearly 500 nursing staff have been recruited in the university hospitals of Marseille. But this is not enough. In the coming days, non-urgent surgical activities will be canceled to requisition 12 nurses. They are “exhausted, tired and wonder when they will come out of this wave”. At the moment, the virus is going faster than the vaccine. Without restrictive measures, these caregivers do not see how the tension in the hospital could subside in Marseille.
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