“In concrete terms, this means that the crisis units of the thirty-eight hospitals that make up the AP-HP will meet more often and, above all, that the descheduling of non-urgent interventions will increase in the coming days”, explains Francia Inter.
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Public radio describes impossible scenes in hospitals: several ninety-year-olds on a stretcher for more than 20 hours, a newborn intubated and ventilated in a toilet transformed into a bedroom…
This measure comes as the bronchiolitis epidemic continues to progress “at a very high level in metropolitan France,” according to the latest report from Public Health Francepublished on November 16, and in a context of hospital staff shortages, while the Minister of Health, François Braun, announced on Monday an additional endowment of 543 million euros for the public hospital.
