Whether at the Claude Bernard clinic, in the Uneos group or at the CHR Metz-Thionville, deprogramming began a few days ago. What does deprogramming mean? This involves canceling or postponing all non-urgent surgical procedures, in order to free up resuscitation beds but also qualified personnel.
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Need for medical reinforcements
In the Uneos group (formerly HP Metz), Régis Moreau, the general manager, explains that activities have already fallen by 30%, depending on the specialties. “We kept all the units relating to loss of luck, cancerology, stroke, cardiac surgery. We have also kept the outpatient clinic light, which mobilizes few resources. “Same strategy at the Claude Bernard clinic. “We have deprogrammed nearly 50% of the activities, assures Gabriel Giacometti, the director. We focus on priority pathologies, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, management of pathologies that do not endure any delay, which can have an impact on the quality of life of patients. “For hospital services, the situation is all the more delicate as they have not managed to absorb all the delays caused by the first wave of Covid in March. The Elsan group, of which the Metz clinic Claude Bernard is a part, has also ensured its rear, by mobilizing the staff of the Notre-Dame clinic in Thionville to come as reinforcements on the Covid cohorting units of the Metz site.
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Transfers to Metz
At CHR, the method is identical. “The deprogramming is done after analysis of the files of each patient, in compliance with all the recommendations in force, with the sole priority of preserving the best interests of patients. These provisions make it possible to meet the needs of other regions overwhelmed by the health crisis. “Metz is in demand,” says Régis Moreau. We should welcome two patients, the CHR also two and Claude Bernard a patient. »Transfers scheduled for the end of this week. “We anticipate so that it is not deleterious for the patients of the territory”, continues the CEO of Uneos. “We will have free beds left to relieve the CHR if necessary”, argues the director of Claude Bernard. The hospitals of the territory coordinate their action.
All of the hospitals in Metz have armed the secretariats which warn patients. Case by case. The acts are canceled or even postponed. “We have very little visibility,” says Gabriel Giacometti. It is urgent to wait for the end of this second wave.
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