In Ile-de-France, the pressure is still mounting in the hospital. ” Yesterday’s figures, whether they were in intensive care or in conventional hospitalization, are particularly high. We haven’t seen such a high number of entries in twenty-four hours since the first wave “, Alerted Martin Hirsch, director general of the AP-HP (Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris), in a letter addressed to caregivers of the Ile-de-France institution, Wednesday, March 24.
If the rate of admission to intensive care has already reached, since the beginning of March, around 100 new Covid-19 patients per day in hospitals in the region, 171 patients arrived in critical care on March 23. – 683 additional patients were hospitalized on this day – according to data from Public health France. This brings the number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care in Ile-de-France to 1,360, a level that already greatly exceeds the peak of the second wave in November (1,136).
2,200 beds by mid-April
The regional health agency (ARS) asked, on Tuesday, the establishments to prepare to take an additional step in the opening of resuscitation beds. This supposes to deprogram even more strongly the activity “non-Covid”.
According to the ARS, hospitals will exceed, by the end of the week, the threshold of 1,500 patients in critical care, which has resulted in the deprogramming of 40% of hospital activity. It is, from now on, the level of 1,800 beds which the establishments must prepare themselves ” by the middle of next week », Announced the agency, that is to say an intermediate level, before that of the 2,200 beds also envisaged in the short term, by mid-April.
Nothing suggests an improvement in the next few weeks, on the contrary: despite the reconfinement under the formula of a “third way”, applied since March 20 in 16 departments including those of Ile-de-France, contaminations continue. , to date, their progression, with an incidence rate reaching 560 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (over seven days). The repercussions of contamination on resuscitation do not occur, however, for two to four weeks.
“There is the gloomy prospect of having to stop everything that is not immediately vital in the hospital”, recognizes the regional health agency
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