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Health: Paris hospitals still among the world's best in several specialties

According to the American magazine Newsweek, several AP-HP hospitals are still well placed in the rankings of the world's best hospitals, particularly in neurology, oncology and cardiology.

Covid: “Encouraging signals” announcing the end of the fifth wave, the AP-HP claims

AP-HP Director General Martin Hirsch wrote in an internal email there were “encouraging signals” about the Covid-19 epidemic. Is this the beginning of the end of the fifth wave in France?

Covid: Île-de-France hospitals soon to cancel 80% of medical procedures

For the latest weekly press brief, held this Thursday March 25, Olivier Véran announced that Île-de-France hospitals might soon have to cancel 80% of medical procedures. Île-de-France regional health agency (ARS) already gave the “strong order”, in early March, to hospitals and clinics in the region, to cancel about half of their medical and surgical procedures to give room for Covid sick in intensive care units.

Hospital-acquired Covid: 30% of deaths or severe cases have been infected at the hospital

Catching coronavirus at the doctor or at the hospital? With 44,401 Covid-19 hospital-acquired cases reported, we knew Covid-19 will likely be a hospital-acquired disease. A Scottish study shows that 30% of people dead or several infected with coronavirus have caught the virus at the hospital.

Coronavirus: “it will be no tsunami, but the bathtub will overflow” Professor Adnet says

Hospitals are bracing themselves as a new wave of coronavirus cases is coming… In an interview with Ouest France, professor Frédéric Adnet – head of the emergency unit at the Avicenne hospital and medical head of the Samu de Seine-Saint-Denis – returned on the current health situation and on the fears of seeing hospitals – already under pressure – be overwhelmed.

Coronavirus: slight epidemic recovery in Parisian hospitals according to Oliver Veran

The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, spoke to France Inter on Thursday 16 July about "weak signals of epidemic recovery" in Parisian hospitals and called on the French to remain "vigilant".