Covid-19. Le service réanimation du CHU de Bordeaux en grande difficulté : la sixième vague s’annonce
By Isabelle Castéra
The back-to-school press conference at Bordeaux University Hospital was an opportunity to point out that “hospital tensions” remained. Caregivers fear the epidemic will peak by the end of the month
The Director General of Bordeaux University Hospital, Yann Bubien, did not want, at the start of the year, to give false hopes: “The CHU has been in tension for many months, because of the Covid but not only. It’s no secret that we have major recruitment concerns, bed management, clusters in services, among caregivers, generating absenteeism. Saturating emergencies, both in pediatrics and in adults. “
“Loss of luck”
At his side, Nicolas Grenier, president of the CME (Establishment Medical Commission) taught the nail, since there is nail. “We are in control of the situation by imposing great constraints on ourselves, because we always have closed beds, up to 600 during the holidays! We managed to reopen 260 this week and they are already saturated … The needs are such that the question arises of the loss of opportunity for patients who cannot access care. “
Professor Denis Malvy, in this particularly difficult context, made an inventory of the Covid pandemic, ensuring that the Delta was still present, even if the Omicron, “this unprecedented variant with transmissibility worthy of a hurricane” , had taken over. “The end of the pandemic, we will not be able to announce it in 2022. Even if we see the end of the tunnel, we do not yet know how long it takes to reach it …”