Covid-19: more than 300 health professionals from mainland France will lend a hand to Martinique – Franceinfo

Solidarity between territories. More than 300 health professionals will fly from Paris Orly airport on Friday, August 20 in the afternoon, to Martinique and Guadeloupe, whose hospitals are saturated with cases of Covid- 19.

Caregivers will come “in support” and will take “Succession” teams “already there”, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health. The Director General of Health, Jérôme Salomon, will be present at Orly to “thank and greet” these professionals “mobilized for the national solidarity effort towards the West Indies”, we say from the same source.

The airlift set up to relieve the West Indian hospitals has already materialized by two movements: 240 doctors, nurses and orderlies left on August 10, then around 120 last Tuesday, still “fairly distributed” between Guadeloupe and Martinique, according to the ministry.