Respect confinement! Message from Doctor Simon Sunder, head of the infectious diseases department at Niort hospital. The establishment continues to prepare with the larger arrival of covid-19 patients. “We expect a peak next week but we don’t really know”, says Bruno Faulconnier, director of the hospital in Niort. Niort who welcomes this Wednesday March 25 a person in intensive care, eight others in need of hospitalization and nine people awaiting results.
We are ahead of the arrival of patients
The services have been reorganized to increase resuscitation capacity to 18 beds for cases of coronavirus. Units have closed as day care in psychiatry and child psychiatry. Two covid-19 units exist, “we are thinking about setting up a third”, specifies the director. Contacts have been made with the CHNDS and the Inkermann clinic if more beds in intensive care are needed. “We are ahead of the arrival of patients”, he continues.
A mobile sampling team has also been set up to carry out outside samples, in medico-social establishments.
Reinforced 15
In terms of regulating the Samu, the team has been expanded with two additional doctors. “From 300 files in normal times, we went to 800-900”, specifies doctor Farnan Faranpour, head of the emergency-Samu-Smur-intensive care unit. He recalls that“before going to the emergency room, you have to call 15”.
Niort hospital to participate in chloroquine study
Niort hospital is also preparing to participate in a hydroxychloroquine study, [dérivé de la chloroquine, un antipaludéen] defended by a Marseille doctor, Professor Didier Raoult, but whose use divides. It would be a study on 1300 patients from 28 centers. “It takes people to show that it works or that it doesn’t work”, says Dr. Simon Sunder.
For the moment, “there is no evidence of the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in the clinic on patients with covid”, says the head of the infectious diseases department. In Niort, “we assess the situation of each hospitalized patient on a case-by-case basis. There is hydroxychloroquine but there are also other treatments which are presumed to be effective but without being proven”, continues the doctor. “What is certain is that if they are indicated, it is for the most serious cases and those hospitalized”.
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