This afternoon was held a crisis meeting at the Cayenne hospital provoked by the ARS and the hospital management. The president of the CTG, Gabriel Serville was present. It was a question of alerting on the situation of saturation of the hospital and on the measures taken to cope.
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This afternoon was held a crisis meeting at the Cayenne hospital provoked by the ARS and the hospital management. This was to alert on the progression of the 4th covid wave with a constant increase in positive cases and an overall increase in hospital activity.
The director of Cayenne hospital, Christophe Robert:
This meeting responds to a tense situation in the emergency department while there is at the same time an obstetric crisis since the maternity unit is full and the rooms must be doubled. The situation is complicated.
Continuously overheating services
The overall activity of the establishment is increasing, underlines the director. The emergency department should not be overcrowded. A worrying sign, this night it was necessary to admit about fifty people.
The development of the covid variant delta is very worrying and the image sent back to the West Indies with the application of an alert disaster medicine to the point in Guyana. For the moment, the hospital center can only count on its own strength with staff close to burnout who have been in constant activity for 18 months. Professor Hatem Kallel, Head of the intensive care unit, head of the emergency and critical care unit:
This crisis unit was triggered in relation to a situation of congestion and saturation of the emergency department. A saturation which is linked to a greater influx of covid and non-covid patients and that the hospital capacity cannot absorb … The meeting shows that we are moving to a higher capacity to provide care. We still have two to three steps to consume. The risk is that beyond that, hospital capacities will be totally exceeded. We will seek external resources that will be installed in hospital structures or in other structures … mobile hospitals or evacuate people to the metropolis.
Professor Kallel stresses that for the time being, the hospital has what it needs in terms of equipment, oxygen, drugs, provided the situation does not worsen.
The regional director of the ARS, Clara De Bort insisted on the need to be vaccinated now. It emphasizes the presence of materials, beds, hospitals are equipped but there is a lack of staff to provide intensive care 24/7. This difficulty exists all over the world, she adds. Guyana is currently equipped with 45 armed resuscitation beds.
On the braking measures installed over time, she recognizes that they are difficult to bear, you have to know when to put them in place and adjust according to the gravity of the situation.
The regional director approves the establishment of a citizens’ committee for better information.
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