Will France have to choose between its patients for lack of respirators? Grand Jury guest RTL-LCI-Le Figaro, this Sunday March 22, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran hammered him: “We are doing our best to avoid this situation.“.
“When I say for weeks that France is preparing, when we have asked all the hospitals to stop all scheduled activities, when we call on the health reserve – which is rich with nearly 40,000 people -, when we pass orders for thousands of respirators … It is to be able to face, as much as possible, the difficulties and tensions that are localized in certain territories“, he insisted.
“I asked that ethical cells be set up in all hospitals to be able to support caregivers in this type of decision if they should arise, “he said, if the question of sorting arose.” We are doing everything to be able to escape it. I can’t tell you face to face that it won’t happen. We are doing our utmost to ensure that this situation does not arise, “he reassured.
Faced with the influx of patients in hospitals in the Grand Est, he replied: “We were obliged to transfer patients by helicopter, by medical plane, even to transfer certain patients abroad“When an epidemic strikes, you can have everything prepared, you can find yourself in a situation of extreme tension,” he concluded.
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