in hospitals, the number of unvaccinated patients worries and annoys caregivers

In Bordeaux (Gironde), hospital caregivers are working to help patients. A single bed is no longer available in the intensive care unit, Wednesday, December 22, where Covid patients are the majority. Of the seven people hospitalized with the virus, six are not vaccinated. They are all in serious condition, and will stay in the facility for several weeks.

The immunization status of the patient is never a priority criterion, but the situation begins to weigh on staff morale. “If we have taken an unvaccinated one and it is an immunocompromised vaccinee, for example, who comes in behind, we will just have a slightly unpleasant feeling, and we will be sorry for the patient behind.“, says Doctor Mathieu Acquier, resuscitator at the Bordeaux University Hospital.

For his part, Professor Alexandre Boyer, of the intensive care and resuscitation service of the CHU, declares that if he has to choose between two patients on the vaccinated or unvaccinated status, he would prefer that “vaccination is compulsory. “” Let someone else, the whole nation, take this responsibility, do not let it weigh on our little shoulders “, he develops.