The first elements of the military convoy transporting the field hospital which must help to unclog the Mulhouse hospital, whose resuscitation service is saturated by coronavirus patients, arrived on Saturday morning March 21 at their destination.
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Of the 16 army logistics command trucks that had set out for Mulhouse on Friday morning, six arrived just before 7 a.m. near the Emile Muller civilian hospital, escorted by vehicles and bikers from the police.
The field hospital should be installed on the parking lot usually reserved for the staff of the civilian hospital, where a tent and troop transport trucks had already been positioned Friday, as well as a generator. An AFP photographer noted on Saturday morning the presence of about fifty soldiers, in lattice, carrying their packages.
This field hospital will have 30 intensive care beds and around a hundred members of the nursing staff. It must help unclog the hospital in Mulhouse, completely saturated by an increasing influx of patients with coronavirus, the town being one of the main epidemic centers of the country.
Made up of elements usually used in external operations for “Acts of heavy combat surgery care”, this equipment has been reconfigured “in order to adapt it to the specific needs of COVID-19 (resuscitation, ventilation) “, according to a press release from the Ministry of the Armed Forces.
According to the President of the Grand Est Region, Jean Rottner the field hospital should be operational early next week. “Thirty beds 50 meters from the hospital is obviously a real opportunity for us”, greeted Friday on France Inter the head of emergencies of the Mulhouse hospital, Marc Noizet, describing resuscitation services “In total saturation” in Mulhouse and Colmar.
In addition, six new patients from Mulhouse arrived this Saturday at the Bordeaux University Hospital. They were transported aboard the A330 army Phoenix, equipped with the Morphée kit, said the Air Force. It is a veritable flying hospital, usually used to repatriate seriously injured soldiers in external operations.
Patients have also been transferred for several days by helicopter, one by one, to other civilian hospitals in the northeast.
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