Faced with the risk of a runaway epidemic situation in Ile de France, the order was given to all health establishments to deprogram medical care and surgical interventions. It is a question of freeing up 500 new places in the intensive care units threatened with being overwhelmed. In this tense situation, liberal doctors challenge the priority given to pharmacists for the delivery of vaccines.
- The objective is to reach 1,577 intensive care beds during this week
- The incidence rate in the Paris region reaches 400 per 100,000
Bad news for the inhabitants of Ile de France: 40% of the medical and surgical activities of health establishments – hospitals and clinics – in the region will be deprogrammed in order to free up intensive care reception capacities for Covid patients. It was Aurélien Rousseau, the director of the ARS (Regional Health Agency) who gave this “firm and immediate order” on Monday March 8, explaining it by “very strong tension” with more than 950 patients in intensive care for “less than 1050 beds available.
Free resuscitation beds
This decision taken by the ARS based on the latest figures for the epidemic in the Paris region aims to free up 500 new places in intensive care to “reach 1,577 beds during the next week”. According to its director general, it is the very sharp increase in the incidence for two weeks which increases the flow of patients admitted to intensive care: he announces 70 to 80 admissions per day to intensive care, i.e. a balance of 35 patients per day.
Last week, nearly 22,000 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded every day, bringing the level of incidence in the region to around 400 per 100,000. Figures which did not, however, lead to new restrictive measures for the inhabitants of Ile de France while weekend confinement was still in force in the Alpes Maritimes and was imposed in Pas-de-France. -Calais.
585,000 French people vaccinated over the weekend
This decision to impose on health establishments such a significant deprogramming of “other” care could, still according to the boss of the ARS, be the subject of “readjustment if the flow became less intensive in intensive care”.
But this “order” is a rather negative sign as to the evolution of the epidemic in the Paris region. However, it comes as the government welcomes a “record” weekend in terms of vaccination. 585,000 French people were vaccinated between Friday evening and Sunday and the Minister Delegate in charge of Industry assured this Monday morning that the continuation of this intensification of the campaign could be based on the delivery of two million doses of vaccines per week within two weeks.
Liberal doctors deprived of vaccines
However, discontent is setting in among general practitioners following the instruction given on Sunday evening by the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, to give priority to pharmacists for the doses of vaccines reserved for doctors for next week. “This will result in the impossibility for doctors to vaccinate in their offices!”, Indignant in a press release Jean-Paul Ortiz, the boss of the CSMF, the main union of the liberals. by denouncing an “aberrant and incomprehensible” decision. “It is not to multiply the vaccinators that it is necessary, it is to multiply the vaccines!, continues Jean-Paul Ortiz, calling on the government to “urgently raise the bar”.
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