The epidemics of bronchiolitis, COVID-19 and influenza lead to “strong tension on beds and human resources, increased this week by a lesser availability of city medicine”, explain the establishments.
MO12345LEMONDE With AFP
Ten hospitals and clinics of Savoy and Ain announced, Thursday, December 29, the activation of the White Plan, due to the “triple epidemic” of bronchiolitis, Covid-19 and influenza affancing “especially “Emergency services.
“For the past ten days, hospitals in the Savoie-Belley territory have faced significant tension, including emergency services,” explain the nine hospitals and a clinic in a Communiqué . The “epidemic context (bronchiolitis, covid, flu)” leads “a strong tension on beds and human resources, increased this week by a lesser availability of city medicine”, which results in “important waiting times In the emergency room, sometimes greater than 10 hours, and difficulties in hospitalizing patients in medicine “.
measure applied until January 3
Faced with this situation, these establishments – nine in Savoy, including the Chambéry hospital, and one in the Ain – are therefore “forced to trigger the territorial white plan”. This means that they “will partially deprogram, in a adjusted manner and adapted to the reality of each establishment, their surgery and programmed medicine activities (without immediate loss of luck), in order to absorb the influx of patients in the emergency room and To release beds in the services, “they said in this joint press release. This measure will apply until January 3, when it will be “reassessed”.
Travel on Wednesday in Annecy, the Minister of Health, François Braun, spoke of a “week of all dangers” for the health system, faced with this triple epidemic. However, he had rented an “absolutely complete mobilization of staff”, thanks to which “the system manages to hold”.