Investigation: the hospital in times of crisis
Article 4/4: “Who should we treat, in the end?”
We saw in the previous article that when the number of intensive care beds is increased, mortality rises owing to a lack of trained and competent staff. If healthcare staff are the key to an appropriate response to a health crisis, shouldn’t that be where the...
Article 3/4: “It’s the people, not the beds, stupid”
Political choices regarding healthcare over the past two decades have influenced the capacity of a hospital sector in a state of chronic saturation to manage a crisis. During the first wave, various experts thus expressed concern about the threat of a shortage of...
Article 2/4: “Decisions based on dubious data”
Hospital capacity largely depended on logistics management at national level, based on the desire to avoid saturation of the hospital system. The problem is that the data on hospital bed saturation were not rigorously...
Article 1/4: “Who is to blame: are we all guilty?”
Back to the start of the crisis, in March 2020: overnight, the political class discovered to its astonishment that intensive care units had been making do with whatever they had for several decades. From then on, the media began informing us...