24/08/2020 (Agence Europe) – The European Commission announced, on 18 August, its intention to mobilise €2.5 million under the Emergency Support Instrument to train health professionals in intensive care. This training will provide specific medical skills for health professionals who do not regularly work in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). “This will help increase the capacity of staff that could be deployed at a time when there is need for rapid, temporary and significant scale-up of ICU capacity”, notes the Commission. This programme, implemented uniformly across the European Union, will cover a minimum of 1,000 hospitals and 10,000 doctors and nurses, and will be deployed between August and December 2020. (Original version in French by SPj)