Faced with the outbreak of the epidemic in Île-de-France, the government could decide to reconfigure the region from next week. A decision that is slow to be taken but which becomes inevitable, judges Dr. Rémi Salomon, president of the medical commission of the AP-HP.
Guest of RTL this Sunday, March 14, Rémi Salomon estimated that the medical evacuations of patients to other less affected regions, which began on Friday, “will not be enough” to lower hospital blood pressure. “The room for maneuver is quite low. (…) At the hospital, we risk being in a situation of overflow, to no longer be able to take care of arriving patients, “he said, while 96% of intensive care beds in the region are occupied by Covid patients.
If he says he understands the hesitations of the executive, because of the consequences of confinement on the economy and health, he explains that it is absolutely necessary “reduce the circulation of the virus”, an objective which passes by “political decisions” but also by a support of the population to these measures. “Social cohesion is necessary if we want to face this crisis. I want to say to the French: understand what is happening, it is on each of us that it depends, in our daily behavior,” he said. he said, advising for example to not to go to dinner with friends.
