By Maëlys Dolbois
Published on 26 Mar 21 @ 12:33 pm
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The health situation in Seine-Saint-Denis is on the verge of explosion. Figures relating to Covid-19 are less and less good and the pressure is mounting in the hospitals of the department. The occupancy rate of intensive care beds has exceeded 150% in Seine-Saint-Denis.
“These are patients who will be sacrificed”
A situation that greatly worries the head of the intensive care unit at the CHU Avicenne in Bobigny, in Seine-Saint-Denis, Yves Cohen. At the microphone ofEurope 1, Friday March 26, 2021, he says he is afraid sorting out patients in intensive care in the coming days.
“This is what we have been urged to do for several weeks and I am afraid that we will get there,” says Professor Yves Cohen. “Clearly, these are the patients who are going to be sacrificed.”
A choice that the department head finds “unbearable” when his teams have been fighting for over a year to save lives. “Choices like that, not to take a patient because there is a lack of beds, it’s unbearable for us,” he adds.
“There will be a choice of patients to be made”
Unfortunately, the situation is such that choices will become inevitable due to the lack of available beds. In this Seine-Saint-Denis hospital, there was before the start of the health crisis 16 intensive care beds. In October, during the second wave, 16 new beds were opened, and eight more a few weeks ago.
This is clearly not enough in the face of the situation that caregivers are facing and Avicenna’s resuscitation teams will not be able to go beyond it. “When we have two patients and a single bed, we will have to take a single patient. There will be a choice of patients to be made and, unfortunately, that means it will be a sacrifice for one of the patients, ”says Yves Cohen.
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