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The epidemic of bronchiolitis, important and early, worries. Nearly 7,000 children were admitted to the emergency room last week. The Minister of Health has put in place an action plan so that all medical personnel can be mobilized.
The epidemic of early bronchiolitis and of exceptional magnitude, worries the parents, like those of Charlie, a month and a half, hospitalized in Rochefort (Charente-Maritime) Wednesday, November 9. “You don’t expect to experience this when you hear about bronchiolitis”, underlines his mother. The doctors at the Nancy University Hospital (Meurthe-et-Moselle) are also worried. Cyril Schweitzer, head of the neonatology child unit at the Nancy University Hospital, the “next step is to deprogram” children’s operations to free up beds.
No region is spared and the epidemic is reaching levels never seen before. Last week, there were 6,891 children under the age of two admitted to the emergency room, including 2,337 hospitalizations. On Wednesday, the Minister of Health launched a general mobilization plan, the ORSAN plan, the objective of which is to mobilize all the players. But the members of the Pediatrics collective are worried about the consequences that this could have in the long term. “We are in the process of completely finishing off the caregivers who are already exhausted”, declares doctor Julie Starck of the Armand Trousseau hospital in Paris.