A 2-month-old infant had to be transferred to Rouen last Saturday because there was no place available in the pediatric intensive care units in Hauts-de-Seine, reports The Parisian. And there was also no bed available in one of the five specialized hospitals in Île-de-France. “We go around the pediatric intensive care units in Ile-de-France, zero places. We do a second round saying ”no, but there, it’s really problematic, you really can’t find room for us”. And in the end, no place, ”testified Gilles Jourdain, medical manager of the Hauts-de-Seine pediatric Smur, to franceinfo.
The closest solution was therefore to transfer the child in need of resuscitation care for bronchiolitis and great difficulty breathing at the Rouen University Hospital, 140 kilometers from Hauts-de-Seine.
This transfer took place outside of the bronchiolitis epidemic period. Last year, there were, still according to the Parisian, 62 transfers of the same type in Île-de-France. The first, however, occurred in mid-September. And Gilles Jourdain to emphasize to the Parisian : “In Île-de-France, 36 beds were missing on Monday out of the 102 for intensive care and pediatric continuing care. In Necker, they have zero places available. Ditto at Robert-Debré, Kremlin-Bicêtre or Raymond-Poincarré. At Trousseau, they are overbooked. »