The Aveyron hospital center is affected by a cluster. 38 people, patients and staff alike, are positive for Covid-19 in the geriatric medicine department.
It is a new cluster which comes to strike the Millau hospital center. The English variant, which circulates at full speed in the city of the glove has entered the department of geriatric medicine. “It proliferates very quickly”, according to the director of the hospitals of Millau and Saint-Affrique, Sylvie Marty. After a crisis unit, held this Thursday evening, she took stock: “We have 11 affected nurses, 8 nursing assistants, 4 students, a secretary and a maintenance worker,” she says.
The test results of nine more patients expected
Added to these staff, 13 patients are positive, on the 15 beds of the medical service. “Seven are symptomatic but relatively stable, reassures Sylvie Marty. The first contaminations arrived at the end of last week and it is believed that some of the patients will be able to return home in the middle of next week. In general, we can send them back to home between D-10 and D-14. “
The direction is awaiting test results from nine patients, hospitalized in follow-up care and rehabilitation (SSR), carried out this Thursday. “We have stopped admissions to medicine and geriatric SRR. Medical patients are referred to Saint-Affrique, until the situation returns to normal.”
Staff shortage at the Millavois hospital
The Millau hospital center is planning a major massive screening operation, from Monday. “It will be by saliva test this time. It will affect all the professionals of the Puits-de-Calès, in contact with the patients.”
All the steps in order to have reinforcement from the outside have been mobilized
With Fabienne Silly the director of care, they pointed out a recruitment problem within the CH Millavois. “There is a shortage of nurses and nursing assistants, insists Sylvie Marty. For the permanence of care, we ask caregivers to go back on their days off because we cannot recruit. interim have nothing, the sanitary reserve at the level of the ARS either. We have no CV. I would like to set up Macron’s “Whatever it costs” but I have no one . “And Fabienne Silly to add:” All the steps in order to have external reinforcement have been mobilized. “In terms of working methods, nothing has changed and no operation deprogramming has been implemented for now.
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