Full whipping during the first wave of COVID, the region is preparing again to face the storm. About 1,400 Francilians out of 100,000 were positive at SARS-COV-2 over the last seven days, and the incidence exceeds 2,000 cases per 100,000 in Paris.
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The worst is never sure but the Francilian hospitals are preparing it again. While the covid wave carried by Delta does not end, and that the cases of Omicron reach new records, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Ile-de-France announced on Thursday 30 December, deprogramming from next week of all non-urgent surgical and medical activities in the region. “We preserve the activities of oncology, nephrology, pediatrics, grafts and cardiac surgery that must be at all costs maintained,” says Didier Jaffre, Director of the Care Offer of the ARS.
The day before, the Public Assistance Directorate – Paris Hospitals (AP-HP) had already asked all its institutions to “limit the scheduled activity of next week to the support for which a vital prognosis is stakes “. In his message to the heads of departments, she set out this alarming painting: “The SAMU treat a considerably higher number of calls than usual at the same time of the year; the number of beds stretches in emergency services Is regularly above 100 in the morning; critical care beds are all busy in a context where plannings are even more complex to report on sick leave. “
Full whipping during the first wave of Covid, almost two years ago, the region is preparing again to face the storm. The incidence rate has reached a record: about 1,400 Francilians out of 100,000 were positive at SARS-COV-2 over the last seven days, and the incidence exceeds 2,000 cases per 100,000 in Paris. Contaminations by the Omicron – more contagious but less dangerous variant than the Delta Variant, according to the first data – account for 70% of the total. “We still have a little trouble quantifying it, but we prepare hospitals with a significant impact,” says Jaffre Didier.
Already 735 critical care beds are occupied by COVID patients, about 40% of the total capacity of public and private institutions (more than 2,600 at the peak of the spring 2020). The deprogramming of some of the surgical procedures will allow “armory” the 15% critical care beds that hospitals have been forced to close in recent months for lack of nurses.
Deprogramming reaches 20%
This is the case at the Bichat hospital, in the north of Paris. “We will reallocate some of the nurses of the operative blocks to reopen resuscitation beds,” says Aurélie Gouel, anesthetist and co-chair of the Bloc Council, highlighting the effort made by these caregivers who became the “adjustment variable” Every new wave. While surgeons have not caught up the delay accumulated during the year, deprogramming already reaches 20%. “Patients understand but there is some weariness,” she says.
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