Until now, the Public Assistance of Hospitals of Marseille (AP-HM) had remained completely silent in the face of the phenomenon. For 18 months, the now famous director of the IHU of Marseille Didier Raoult has been posting his views and analyzes on the coronavirus crisis every Tuesday in popular YouTube videos.
And for 18 months, video after video, never the AP-HM, on which Professor Raoult depends, and his management team had communicated in reaction, despite the controversies and controversies sometimes caused by these same speeches.
A video that annoys
But last summer, the Marseille hospital ship changed captain after the retirement of its previous director. And this new team at the head of the AP-HM has decided not to remain silent in the face of the media director of the IHU.
Didier Raoult’s latest video, in which he states that “overall, vaccine protection against variants is modest in terms of epidemiology”, particularly arouses the annoyance of Professor Jean-Luc Jouve, new president of the establishment committee medical of the AP-HM.
“A responsibility” in the weak vaccination of the northern districts
“The position which consists in saying that the vaccination had questionable effects is unacceptable”, tackles the latter on the occasion of a press conference of the AP-HM on the current epidemic situation. “We followed him when he told us that hydroxychloroquine might work,” recalls Jean-Luc Jouve, “but there is currently a misunderstanding of the medical staff of our AP-HM vis-à-vis our colleague Didier Raoult. “
For Jean-Luc Jouve, Didier Raoult’s videos even bear “perhaps a responsibility in the fact that in the northern districts, the vaccination coverage is quite marginal”. According to the Marseille professor, “this discourse, when it is carried in this way” on YouTube, will indeed be “badly interpreted by people who have more difficult access to information, often indigent people.” “
“We need fighters”
This Monday, on Cnews, Didier Raoult accused the new director general of the AP-HM of having been appointed “to clean up”. Last week, an article from World had indeed revealed that François Crémieux did not wish to extend Didier Raoult, retired at the end of August, at the head of the IHU. “There is a need to turn a page and organize the future of the IHU for the next twenty years”, justified the new general manager of Marseille hospitals.
“This decision raises questions, in the midst of a pandemic, at a time when we need fighters like Didier Raoult,” says Kader Benayed, deputy departmental secretary of Sud Santé. “The incidence rate is extremely high in Paca, confirms François Crémieux, who refuses to comment on the controversy surrounding Didier Raoult. It is almost 600, which is double the national rate. “
New medical evacuations
Consequently, in this summer period when tourists are still present in Marseille, the emergencies of the AP-HM are “under tension and in a real crisis situation, with a massive influx of patients and an unprecedented peak of activity. until then, ”according to Aurélia Bordais, emergency doctor at the North hospital.
This Tuesday, two patients with Covid and admitted to intensive care at the AP-HM will be evacuated in order to unclog the services. “We are in the process of setting up a new medical evacuation, confides with concern Professor Lionel Velly, head of the resuscitation service at Timone. The patient is 22 years old and will be evacuated to Strasbourg. “Four patients have already been evacuated from Marseille to the Grand Est on Friday, a first since last April.