Faced with the unprecedented scale of the crisis and the influx of patients, stocks are running out. First those of protective masks. Then the reagents used in the Covid-19 diagnostic tests. And respirators, whose production is struggling to keep up with demand. Little by little, everything necessary for hospitalization and treatment of patients is running out. Even the most common equipment, the most common drugs.
“Hospital stocks of muscle relaxants, sedatives and painkillers are consumed quickly”, is alarmed by the European Alliance of European University Hospitals, and “At their current rate of consumption, stocks will be empty within a few days in the hardest hit hospitals, and within two weeks for those with the largest reserves.” In their press release published on Tuesday, some forty doctors and directors of establishments in France and other European countries call on their respective leaders to coll
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Camille Gévaudan
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