It must help unclog the private hospital in northern Paris. Sarcelles is opening a Covid-19 consultation center on Monday. The doctors and nurse volunteers will take turns from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. from Monday to Saturday, to take care of patients in the four boxes set up in the Anne-Frank school, a stone’s throw from the clinic private.
“Only symptomatic patients who meet the criteria currently in force (frail people, pregnant women, health professionals …) may be prescribed a diagnostic test by a doctor,” recalls the town.
Consultation without appointment
As with other establishments of this type in the department, the center aims to relieve hospitals, reduce the number of calls to 15 and better protect city doctors.
Consultations are done without appointment. Sarcelles intends to carry out a wide communication so that the center “turns full, slides the mayor (PS) Patrick Haddad. People have to come here rather than to the emergency room for it to be really effective. “
A fall in attendance at Beaumont
At the Covid-19 center in Beaumont, which opened on March 30, for example, attendance has “dropped sharply”, in the words of a doctor, in recent days. “Lack of clear communication. We had about fifty patients a day the first week, there we have more than fifteen, “alarmed the patrician.
The number of caregivers on site was halved. The calls to the Samu, on the sector, them increased according to the doctor. “People think we are closed or that it only lasted a few days. We encourage residents to come and see us, so that their care is faster and that the Samu is less overwhelmed, ”she concludes.
Center Covid-19 de Beaumont: 01.30.28.70.76, open from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Covid-19 center in Sarcelles: 01.34.38.20.00, open from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.
