Covid-19 patients flood French ICUs, and doctors are frustrated

A medical worker, wearing a protective face mask and a protective suit, prepares to enter in the room of a patient suffering from the coronavirus disease in the ICU at the Clinique Bouchard-Elsan private hospital in Marseille, France, on September 21 2020. Picture: REUTERS/ERIC GAILLARD

“It’s not doing our job that is tiring. What’s tiring is a second wave because people do not respect social distancing,” Fleyrat, who is MD of the private Clinique Bouchard-Elsan, told Reuters. Some of France’s biggest cities outside of Paris, including Marseille, Lyon and Bordeaux, have imposed new restrictions in an attempt to slow the virus’s spread and reduce the number of intensive care admissions. About 638 Covid-19 sufferers were admitted to the ICU over the past seven days, official data shows.

“But of course, psychologically, it’s still an extra weight,” Roche said of the increasing number of patients being brought in for life-saving treatment.

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