The teacher, deputy head of the reanimation department of anesthesia at the hospital north of Marseille, draws a failure on the state of the hospital facing increasing contamination at Covid-19 related to varying Omicron.
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“Two years into the epidemic Covid-19, I feel a double sense of disappointment and concern. The fifth wave arrives at a hospital that is bloodless. A large part of nursing staff resigned and those that remain are extremely tired. Today, paradoxically, we can open fewer additional intensive care beds as early months of the crisis. We have the machines, but not nurses. This is a failure.
At the time, they shouted “Cash for the hospital!” thinking that Covid-19 show the indispensable role of our institutions. Nearly twenty-four months later, we find ourselves more vulnerable. The Segur health should improve the attractiveness of our business. The device is clearly not enough.
In our service to the hospital north of Marseille, we opened five more beds, which corresponds to an increase of 33% capacity. For now, it remains sufficient. Patients are selected, as one always does in intensive care, depending on the individual benefit against very invasive techniques and avoiding aggressive treatment, but it is not to sort because it remains that a place.
Omicron ranging worries us. Will it less virulent than the Delta? As the days pass, the more it seems to be confirmed. But when we know that there is 5 million unvaccinated in France and that, roughly speaking, one can still open 2000 ICU beds, the ratio is not in our favor. The risk of being submerged still exists.
I signed a forum with more than 500 doctors of AP-HM Marseille to encourage to get vaccinated mess … It reflects our feeling when we see get people in intensive care so that injection and reminders could they avoid it. It’s a mess as for other patients whose care is deprogrammed. In our services, there is no skeptical about the vaccine.
We are shocked to see that in TV debates, some politicians make the recovery on this and we give the same amount of time to those who are for and those against. The lesson to be learned is to stop managing the public hospital nurse closely. You can not ask us to be a pandemic beds tank, to be use for transplants, severe trauma, to train 100% of physicians in France and be profitable.
This obsession must give way to the obsession of care, as in the first wave. We need a Marshall Plan and I am surprised that it is not central to the presidential campaign. Because the hospital is a common good that must be preserved at all costs. “