Covid-19: Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, announces the sending of 100 tons of oxygen to Martinique – franceinfo

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This oxygen is intended for patients on the island hit hard by Covid-19. It will be “available at the end of the week,” said the minister.

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The health situation linked to the Covid-19 epidemic remains very worrying in Martinique, where the incidence rate reached nearly 1,200 cases per 100,000 inhabitants on Sunday. “One of the ships of the French Navy, based in Fort-de-France, set sail yesterday from Guyana to deliver more than 100 tonnes of oxygen to Martinique”, announced Monday August 16 on franceinfo Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces.

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“This oxygen will be available at the end of the week” and will allow“ensure the proper functioning of resuscitation beds” who welcome Covid-19 patients, continued the minister. “Several rotations” will take place in the coming weeks “in order to continue the flow of oxygen supply from Guyana to the West Indies”.

Florence Parly also indicated that, of the twenty resuscitation beds that the army was to deploy in Martinique, “Ten of them have been operational for several days and it is in the next few hours that the ten additional beds that have been announced will be operational”. There will therefore be twenty additional intensive care beds at the CHU of Fort-de-France, she insists.