City’s medics show how they dealt with an emergency on a scale France has not seen since 1945 as 221 patients are still in hospital following Paris attacks Fifty-seven of those injured in the Paris attacks remain in intensive care on Thursday,three of them in a critical state, following an unprecedented medical emergency for French hospital staff and what one stunned doctor called “the surgery of war”.
About 221 people are still in hospital, and the organization of Paris hospitals said,from a total of 433 injured in last Friday’s multiple shootings. Some can be expected to be discharged within days, while others will undergo long-term rehabilitation for severe life-changing injuries. All are being offered treatment from specialists for psychological trauma.
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Source: theguardian.com