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Doctors in the Paris region
Doctors in intensive care units in Paris hospitals have warned that high rates of infection with the Coronavirus may exceed their ability to care for patients in hospitals in the French capital.
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The clear warning about “disaster medicine” came in an opinion piece on Sunday, signed by 41 doctors from the Paris region, and published in the newspaper “Le Journal du Dimanche”.
The doctors said in their article: “We have not witnessed such a situation, even during the worst (terrorist) attacks that targeted the French capital,” noting that the current situation may force them to choose patients who should be treated.
Doctors predicted that the new, more relaxed restrictions imposed this month in Paris and other regions would not be able to control the outbreak of the epidemic very soon.
The publication of the article came as French President Emmanuel Macron strongly defends his decision not to impose a general lockdown in France again, as he did last year.
Macron’s government has imposed a nationwide overnight curfew since January, and has followed this with a series of other restrictions.
But the high number of injuries and the increasing shortage of intensive care beds in hospitals have prompted doctors to intensify pressure to impose a complete closure.
The French health authorities count every week more than 2000 deaths among patients with “Covid-19”, while the total number of deaths from the virus in the country exceeded 94 thousand cases.
Source: AB + “Interfax”
