For lack of space, “we almost systematically refuse proposals from patients who come from SAMU 93”, said Friday March 12 on franceinfo Stéphane Gaudry, professor in the intensive care unit of the Avicenne hospital in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis). Resuscitation services in Île-de-France no longer follow the incessant rhythm of patients affected by Covid-19. “Every 12 minutes, night and day, an Ile-de-France resident is admitted to intensive care”, Olivier Véran said Thursday. Evacuations of patients to other intensive care units in the region are scheduled.
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franceinfo: What is the situation in your hospital?
Stéphane Gaudry : The situation has now been very tense for several weeks. And we will say that for the past ten days, we have witnessed a real change in kinetics with many more patients and especially much more serious patients hospitalized in intensive care units, which leads us to leave patients somewhat limited in sectors which are not resuscitations. We are really in a very, very complicated situation. In any case, this is the local situation in Seine-Saint-Denis, but also the situation in Ile-de-France more generally.
Do you have room in intensive care?
No no. We have no more room in intensive care now for several days, so we have a certain number of patients coming out of intensive care because of the outgoing flow and who allow us to occasionally make places. But in the hours that follow, as soon as there is a place available, the place is taken. For several days now, we have almost systematically refused proposals from patients who come from SAMU 93, for example. So, they must send the patients of SAMU 93 to other places in Île-de-France, where there is still a little bit of space.
Did the government make a mistake not to contain?
Once again, the scientific facts and the proposals of scientists, in particular the Scientific Council which made a recommendation in January to avoid the situation we are in, have not been followed. Consciously or probably for economic, political, but above all political reasons, I think, we end up in this situation and now, it is true that it is difficult for our leaders to assume that they made a mistake, but it can happen to anyone.
“I think it is time to react because we are in the process of offering patients to be transferred 600 kilometers from their families.”
Stéphane Gaudry, professor in the intensive care unit of the Avicenne hospital in Bobigny
to franceinfo
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We have to imagine a patient with a vital prognosis engaged in an intensive care unit which has his family next to the hospital, we are going to explain to this family: “Listen, we are sending him 600 km away because we took a decision, that not to confine the Île-de-France for four weeks “.
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