"We're digging the trenches": France's intensive care medics brace for coronavirus war


  • World
  • Tuesday, 24 Mar 2020

A French soldier helps a man to put a protective suit on during a training session at the military field hospital, at the Emile Muller Hospital, in Mulhouse, France, March 24, 2020 during a lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Sebastien Bozon/Pool via REUTERS

PARIS/NANTES (Reuters) - Intensive care nurse Emmanuelle Dubourg Davy feels that war has been declared and knows that her hospital in the western French city of Anger will soon be inundated with critically ill coronavirus patients.

The teaching hospital has stockpiled surgical blouses, face masks and disinfectant gels, and rotas have been rewritten to increase working hours. So far, only three of 24 intensive care beds are occupied by coronavirus patients, but few among her colleagues doubt that a wave will hit.

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