It is certainly the image that will mark the spirits and the history of this second wave at the fenua. The vision of the nave of the hospital transformed into a paramedical dormitory moved the Polynesians. Installed in less than 24 hours by teams from the CHPF subjected to exponential pressure, these 24 medical beds will welcome patients suffering from the Delta variant but not requiring intensive care in the next few hours.
“The establishment has been completely transformed. The agents were extremely mobilized for this ”, explains Alexis Goubert, deputy director of the CHPF. “We show unwavering commitment. We have indeed gone so far as to transform consultation offices into a real hospitalization sector, or even into an intensive care unit ”.
With 240 COVID beds dispatched in all departments and 38 in COVID resuscitation service, the hospital management must also keep the hundred places to take care of other pathologies which cannot postpone their treatments.
“We must be able to take care of non-covid patients, cardio-vascular arrest and cancer. We must keep a non-covid management capacity. This is the reason why we could not go further in the restructuring and this is the reason why we created these beds ”, explains Alexis Goubert.
If in terms of medical equipment, management confirms that it can meet current needs, it nevertheless remains concerned about its needs in terms of human resources. To remedy this, a delegation of 8 nurses arriving from New Caledonia will now be able to relieve the CHPF workforce. They took their guard last night.
“It happened to us, for all the volunteers, to instinctively apply to the government to come as a volunteer. Even a volunteer, we would also have come ”, explains Mehdi Tamaloult, one of the nurses who arrived from Le Caillou.
This seasoned staff and dedicated to the health of Polynesians should be supported in the coming days by other volunteers but also by the army’s health services.
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