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Abalone Clinic: the second line

While the Tarbes hospital welcomes the first Covid patients from the Great East, the Ormeau clinic is operational to support CH de Bigorre.

Everything has been redesigned at the Abalone clinic! To take care of possible patients with Coronavirus, and ensure the most urgent operations, “organization” is the key word. Since the start of the Covid pandemic, only one entrance has been in operation at the Ormeau center building. You must now go to the emergency airlock and it is behind a window that a first contact is made with a member of the nursing staff.

A procedure that lets you know if the patient is coming for Covid symptoms or not. If there is suspicion, the patient is then directed to a special Covid emergency airlock, separate from that of conventional emergencies.

Outside the clinic, two screening tents, including one made available by the Red Cross, are already set up to anticipate an influx of cases. A sorting room, dedicated to suspected Covid, has also been created on the ground floor of the clinic. To care for patients: a medical secretary, a nurse and a pulmonologist.

Each patient treated in this room will be systematically tested, and the doctor will, or not, refer the patient to the Covid unit, located in the Ormeau Pyrénées Bigorre building, in place of the continuing care unit.

A service with 13 beds for light Covid cases, 15 beds for severe cases, and 6 beds dedicated to critical cases. Isolated from other departments, this unit already receives Covid patients. “Since March 16, we have had a coordination meeting, every day at 12:30 p.m., with the support establishment, the Tarbes hospital, and its director Christophe Bouriat,” explains Cyril Dufourcq, director of the Clinique de l ‘Abalone.

The private clinic is therefore prepared to absorb the overflow of patients from the Tarbes hospital, if this were necessary. Far from the eternal cliché between private and public, the two health establishments are waging a joint war against the Coronavirus.

Human

To prevent the spread of the virus within the establishment, visits were prohibited. Except for dads, who come to attend the birth of their child at maternity, or for families of palliative care patients. These entrants are all equipped with masks before entering the services. “We allow the visit of a person for palliative care patients, who are very fragile physically and psychologically,” explains Cyril Dufourcq. “To make the link between these patients and their relatives, the nursing staff organize video communication sessions, so that they do not feel completely isolated.” Difficult, but necessary, to reconcile very strict security measures and human flexibility. Especially since the clinic always ensures continuity of care and urgent operations, especially in oncology and cardiology. “We have postponed all non-urgent surgical operations to make ourselves available to the hospital in the event of the arrival of the wave announced. But we must insure those whose postponement would represent a loss of chance for the patients, in complete safety” , specifies C. Dufourcq. Everything is done to reassure these patients, already weakened by their serious pathologies. Although the Covid-19 turned the organization of the Ormeau clinic upside down, it did not overshadow the urgency of their care.

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