While the Jacques-Coeur hospital center in Bourges has been facing intense activity for several weeks due to the resurgence of the epidemics of Covid-19, influenza and bronchiolitis, the “sudden, significant and continuous” influx of patients has forced the establishment to trigger the white plan, this Thursday December 15, in broad daylight.
Specifically, the sanitary reinforcements were put in place in the emergency room where, at 6 pm this Thursday, “103 passages” had already been registered since midnight, which roughly corresponds to the number of passages during a 24-hour day, calculate the institution .
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Calls to center 15 exploding
Reinforcements of medical regulatory assistants have also been deployed to Call Center 15, where calls are exploding. In addition, the retired liberal doctors, who agree to handle general practice calls, have agreed to increase their hours of attendance. This Thursday, at 6 pm, the regulatory doctor of center 15 had already answered the calls of “500 patients”, which again corresponds to the number of calls in 24 hours in normal hours, the hospital details.
Faced with this influx of patients, combined with a saturation of hospitalization capacities, the Jacques-Coeur hospital in Bourges invites the population, before going to the emergency room, to contact their general practitioner or SOS doctors as a priority and to seek ultimately on the 15th to avoid saturation of the line.
“Faced with this situation and to prioritize emergencies in the best possible way, the waiting time in the emergency room is being extended for patients who are not life threatening.
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The situation will then be assessed on a daily basis and adjustments can be made. For the moment, no operations have been descheduled and the leave of professionals is maintained, assures the hospital.
Marion Lapeyre
