The transfer, in the middle of the night, of around twenty patients with Covid-19 from the hospitals of Roubaix (Nord) and Tourcoing to the hospitals of Amiens (Somme) and Montreuil-sur-Mer (Pas-de -Calais), struck the spirits. “Roubaix and Tourcoing are in extreme tension, explained on October 22, Patrick Goldstein, the head of the emergency department and the North SAMU at the Lille University Hospital. We are in the process of organizing the transfer of Covid patients who are not in real life but who cannot return home. “ In front of the television cameras, the media emergency doctor adopted an unusual tone: ” There is enough. We absolutely do not want to be applauded at 8 p.m. We want to do our job in good conditions and live like everyone else. “
Patrick Goldstein is tired. The nursing staff from Tourquennois and Roubaix are at the end of their tether. “The sheave is packed. The next patient who will need a bed in intensive care, we will not be able to take care of him, confirmed the next day, disillusioned, Serge Alfandari, infectious disease doctor at CH Dron in Tourcoing. The situation is close to disaster. I don’t know how we’re going to do it next. “
Faced with the worrying development of the epidemic situation in Lille and in the surrounding municipalities, the Hauts-de-France regional health agency (ARS) asked the metropolitan health establishments to activate the white plan on October 22. In a few days, the number of Covid-19 cases there rapidly increased, posting an incidence rate of 705.5 and a positivity rate of 18.2 for the period from October 12 to 18.
“Very active circulation of the virus”
The situation is particularly worrying in the sectors of Roubaix and Tourcoing, where socio-economic difficulties already usually rub shoulders with sad health records. In an infographic produced from data from the health security agency Public Health France (SPF) dated October 18, Franceinfo ranks the twenty French municipalities with more than 10,000 inhabitants where the incidence rate is the highest. Roubaix comes in second position (behind Le Chambon-Feugerolles in the Loire) with a rate of 1,124, then in fourth place Wattrelos (1,046), in fifth Tourcoing (950), etc., that is, in total, nine towns in the north-eastern slope of the Lille metropolis in this disturbing list.
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