Why focus ONLY on the Covid to the detriment of other pathologies that are sometimes more serious and which inevitably suffer from this situation? How to justify putting “forced rest” part of the nursing staff of private clinics when public hospitals are clamoring for more staff and resources? What will be the lessons to be learned from this unprecedented health and economic crisis?
One has the impression that the French are discovering a hospital staff. What does this passage from shadow to light inspire you?
If we suddenly attract the light, so much respect, it is because the unprecedented situation that we are experiencing is generating real fear within the population. As the government has put us on the front line, everyone is hiding behind this front line, hoping it will hold up. The nursing staff are a bit like the hairy people of 1914! We found in them a fabulous hope. Hence this discourse on the heroism of caregivers.
One of the problems of this crisis is the lack of masks, the tension in the supply of drugs …
This is a huge problem. Single-use products are becoming, because they are rationed, multi-use. It is a real basis for reflection because we have seen what the confinement in China and the cessation of production had as a consequence in Europe with the problem of the lack of masks. This crisis has raised many problems and we find ourselves today in a situation where the lack of products necessary for the proper functioning of an operating theater, for example, is being felt. It is advisable to have a reflection on the supplies. In France, we have an efficient and competitive armaments industry, because it is autonomous. It would be interesting to focus on this process for health as well. We must have a look at what we manufacture which will allow us to foresee future needs. The French laboratories in hip and knee prostheses which were of high quality are gradually bought up by American multinationals. We are in a logic of globalization without understanding that we are losing skills which are, as we can see today, essential to the proper functioning of our society.
It is surprising that some establishments close when hospitals are forced to transfer their patients to other departments via trains or medical planes ?!
We started with a logic that was not bad. We have seen a serious crisis looming, so we have decided to preserve the necessary resources in order to best face the epidemic. My clinic suspended all activity at the request of the regional health agency (ARS) on March 16. So we got ready, we stocked up, took stock of the staff available, and then we waited. It was decided to put the establishment on hold to bring everything together elsewhere.
So yes, we have seen some nurses or doctors leave in the Paris region or in the great East at the request of the ARS but, for the rest, it remains absolute vagueness. Today we find ourselves with a whole healthcare staff who are not working, which may indeed seem strange. By stopping the activity, the goal was to release human potential … The result is that today we wait; but what, we do not know!
We are currently only talking about patients with Covid, seeming to forget all the other pathologies?
The excessive media coverage of the Covid, the fact that we are told a daily count of the number of deaths, people in intensive care … We are only focusing on the Covid to the detriment of all these pathologies which also continue to advance . Today, in concrete terms, a person who has a health problem will tend to wait because they do not know where to go. Some treating physicians have closed their practices to protect themselves because there are very few resources to protect caregivers, as masks continue to be scarce. After a month of confinement and stopping of activity in operating theaters, the Covid emergency slider must absolutely drop and it becomes vital that we take new interest in other pathologies. We will inevitably find ourselves in three months in a logic of excess mortality due to patients who will not have been taken care of in time and will have suffered from this period of the Covid …
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