The situation has improved in the Haut-Rhin, one of the main outbreaks of Covid-19 in France.
By Le Figaro with AFP
The army field hospital installed on a parking lot of the Mulhouse civil hospital to help it cope with the influx of patients suffering from Covid-19 began to be dismantled on Friday April 18, it was said. learned Saturday from the army. “We have unequipped bay 1, which corresponds to a module of 10 resuscitation beds of the Military Resuscitation Equipment (EMR) of the Armed Forces Health Service, disassembly is still in progress“Lt. Lucie told AFP.
This field hospital with an initial capacity of 30 beds had received its first patient on March 24, when the resuscitation services of the Mulhouse Sud Alsace Regional Hospital Group (GHRMSA) were saturated. The situation has since improved significantly in the Haut-Rhin, one of the main epidemic centers in France, and the hospital is preparing today “his plan to end the crisis“, According to a statement released Friday.
The number of calls to the Samu thus passed on April 15 for the first time in seven weeks below the threshold of 500, which is equivalent to a return to normal, the statement said. Since the start of the epidemic, GHRMSA has treated more than 1,800 patients with the Covid-19 and 465 of them have died.
Despite the improvement in the situation, the hospital emphasizes that it continues to have a great need for reinforcements, mainly nurses and nursing assistants, while its staff are exhausted and sick leave is on the increase.
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