The four emergency services in Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne recorded an 80% increase in the number of calls over the past week, according to a report published by the AP-HP (Parisian public hospitals) on its website.
Regarding the crowds in emergency departments, it was “exceptionally high” on Friday, up 36% compared to a normal day, and 8% compared to the day before, according to the report which covers the period from Thursday 6:00 p.m. to Friday 6:00 p.m. 75 years old, according to the report.
“We are in the middle of a health crisis”
Saturday morning, the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of health Antoine Alibert indicated that Parisian hospitals were subject to “exceptional and unprecedented saturation”. Mr. Alibert mentioned on franceinfo several very concrete signs of this saturation, the “calls to the Samu, the visits to the emergency room, the stretchers which accumulate in the corridors”, “an indicator which has never been so high”. “We are in the middle of a health crisis. It is an exceptional and extreme heatwave phenomenon” worsened by a “peak of ozone pollution”, he also said.
Friday, during a press point organized at the end of the afternoon, the director of the Île-de-France Regional Health Agency was more measured on the notion of “saturation” of hospitals in the Île-de-France region. “Today, it is difficult to say that there is a total saturation of hospital capacities,” declared director Denis Robin. “But my certainty is that over the weekend we would reach a rupture” without a regional white plan, hence its triggering on Friday afternoon.
The mobilized health reserve
The Official Journal published on Saturday the order mobilizing the health reserve, decided this week by the government. The health reserve “is mobilized from (Saturday) June 27, 2026 for a period of 1 month, renewable once”, indicates the OJ. The health reserve brings together volunteer health professionals (doctors, caregivers, laboratory technicians, radio technicians, etc.) who can be mobilized to provide reinforcement in exceptional health situations.
