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Pediatric services, strongly affected by the bronchiolitis epidemic, are saturated. More than 30 children had to be transferred out of Ile-de-France, for lack of space.
A seven-week-old wheezing baby was filmed by his mother, Adelaide Enlart, at Reims hospital (Marne). This is where little Mona was transferred from Paris for bronchiolitis, the weekend of Saturday October 29. After a night in the emergency room at Necker Hospital, the mother learned that her daughter could not stay. “They came back to see us saying to us: ‘This time, you have no choice, it will be Reims (…)we can’t keep it here for you, we don’t have the space'”says Adelaide Enlart.
Mona’s mother talks about the “stunned to see your baby in this state”. “We had never seen her like this, and we are told that we have to get away from home”, she adds. For the past eight days, the Reims hospital has welcomed 11 babies like Mona, transferred from hospitals in the Ile-de-France region for lack of space. An unbearable situation for families but also for doctors and pediatricians, who denounce the endangerment of children. In the provinces, pediatric services are also overloaded, such as at the Bordeaux University Hospital (Gironde), where children had to be installed in a waiting room.