Several European military ships could be deployed in the Caribbean to come to the populations of the French, Dutch and British territories of this zone where the epidemic begins to make victims.
An amphibious group made up of three European ships could set sail and go to strengthen the hospital systems of the territories of three European states in the Caribbean Sea. These are France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
As of March 26, the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) recorded 761 cases in the 29 states and territories in its zone. But the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in its March 27 point advanced other figures: 1 cases and 063 deaths. For the CARPHA, 20 cases were identified in Guadeloupe and 76 in Martinique.
ARS figures from 1er April witnessed the increase in cases: 125 in Guadeloupe and 128 in Martinique. Saint Martin would have 22.
Lost children of metropolises?
French, Dutch and British possessions look a bit like children lost in the French overseas territories. In total, less than two million inhabitants live there. But they are just as vulnerable as the citizens of metropolitan France to the epidemic.
The French Republic is present in the Antilles, in Saint-Martin, in the departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique and in Guyana. The population concerned amounts to 1,1 million inhabitants.
The Netherlands controls several micro-territories: Aruba, Curaçao and Saint-Martin, as well as the Dutch municipalities of Bonaire, Saba and Saint-Eustache. Less than 400 inhabitants are listed there.
Lesson 14 United Kingdom Overseas Territory include 5 territories in the Caribbean. These are the Turks and Caicos Islands (near the Bahamas), the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Anguilla and Montserrat, with some 167 inhabitants.
Dixmude in preparation
The amphibious helicopter carrier (PHA) Dixmude is currently in Toulon where he arrived on March 27 after 17 days of mission. The Ministry of the Armed Forces specifies that it is « just returned from a mission in the Eastern Mediterranean and that he will prepare to join the Antilles-Guyana zone which he hopes to reach around April 14 ”.
Le Dixmude, specifies the ministry for the Armed forces, « could deliver freight, relieve hospitals depending on its configuration, and project security forces between the departments of Martinique, Guadeloupe and Guyana. "
However, its precise missions are still not known and the Navy is still hesitant about the choice of materials and personnel to embark. There is also the question, whatever the missions, of the fleet of helicopters to embark: the shortage is very real in this area.
The French PHA may not be alone in the Caribbean since a French tanker The Somme (currently in operation with the aircraft carrier Charles-de-Gaulle) could reach the area and that two other European vessels should be sent there. It is a part of the Dutch building Karel Doorman and, on the other hand, a British building.
Le HLMS Karel-Doorman was already deployed in a similar environment in 2014 in West Africa during the Ebola epidemic. His crew embarked on Monday and he is in quarantine before a projection which has not yet been formalized but which is beyond doubt.
A Royal Navy building should also join the West Indies. It could be the FRG Argus. THE FRG Argus has 10 beds, 20 of which are intensive care and XNUMX others are highly dependent (High Dependency Unit). But some Britons believe it will be more useful at dockside in London.
For the past three years, the Royal Navy has maintained a building in the Caribbean area; it was about FRG Mount Bay which has just joined the United Kingdom for maintenance operations.
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