COVID-19 – Beach resorts see many tourists arriving during the Christmas holidays. In Arcachon, the small hospital is already overwhelmed and fears this influx of vacationers. Health workers say they are on the verge of collapse.
Léa Tintillier | Report Y. Chambon, C. Devaux –
Seven days before Christmas, tourists flock to Arcachon (Gironde). With them, the mask is back, including outdoors, in order to protect yourself to have a good holiday without putting your loved ones in danger. “We will stay with our family and we will go for a walk where there are fewer people”, says a woman in the TF1 20H report at the top of this article. “What would be good is if people try not to go out too much and not end up in places where there are a lot of people. Me, that’s what I do.”, continues another.
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But this mixing of population still worries the small hospital already saturated in this seaside resort. Every day new patients arrive. A man has only just been released from intensive care. Unvaccinated, there is one more case of Covid for nurses already overwhelmed.
“I understand well that for them, it is not easy. They have a lot of work, but I have a lack of confidence in the vaccine and I do not like the fact of forcing people. We are in a democracy. , we make choices “, testifies this patient who came close to death.
“The nurses who remain are exhausted”
Of the 12 patients treated for Covid-19 in this hospital, only one is vaccinated. “We do not discriminate, we treat everyone. Vaccinated as unvaccinated”, assures Karine Parot, nurse. But to accommodate these patients, it is necessary to deprogram other operations.
Health workers say they are on the verge of collapse. “There are a lot of sick leaves. Unfortunately, we are reminded all the time so the officers cannot take their rest. Those who remain now are exhausted.”, affirms Marion Longuépée, nurse.
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“We all have the impression that it’s not going to stop because we’ve been doing just that for two years. There, in the space of a few weeks, we have more and more Covid patients”, adds Juliette Villeflayoux, nurse. To resist this fifth wave, the hospital asks to avoid going to the emergency room as much as possible and calls on all liberal or retired caregivers to come as reinforcements during the holidays.
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