During an interview with the Journal du Dimanche, the president of the National Council of the Order of Physicians Patrick Bouet sounded the alarm on the risks of a “generalized” Covid-19 epidemic in France, if the management current situation of the crisis remains unchanged.
- The president of the Order evokes the possibility of a “generalized” epidemic
- He asks for a local organization of the healthcare system which he fears will be overwhelmed
The criticism is harsh, the warning unequivocal. Asked by the Journal du Dimanche on September 27, the president of the National Order of Physicians Patrick Bouet deplores the current management of the health crisis to stem the Covid-19 epidemic in France. According to the doctor, the second wave will come much faster.
“If nothing changes, in three to four weeks, France will have to face, for several long months of autumn and winter, a generalized epidemic throughout its territory, with no rear base from which to draw human reinforcements, with a system health unable to respond to all requests“, explains Patrick Bouet to the JDD.
“What awaits us is a test”
The President of the Order of Physicians deplores in particular the lack of involvement of field health professionals: “CWhat awaits us is a test. But the health professionals, at the origin of the miracle of spring, will not be able to compensate again for the structural deficiencies. Many are exhausted, traumatized“, he considers.
The general practitioner also regrets that our country has not sufficiently anticipated the situation and learned lessons inherited from the first epidemic wave: “It was clear that people were going to relax during the holidays and that the summer contaminations of the coasts would feed the urban Covids of September”.
Finally, to achieve better management of the second wave of the epidemic, Patrick Bouet recommends a system “centered on the organization, the logistics, the concrete, and to provide it with a variation at the level of each department“. This is to prevent the Samu and hospital emergency services from taking care of everything, as happened when the Covid-19 epidemic arrived on French territory last March.
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