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Health. Covid-19: a slow but indisputable progression

The figures for the second wave of Covid are not yet catastrophic, but hospital management is preparing to strengthen services in the coming days.

At CHR Metz-Thionville

At the CHR Metz-Thionville, which includes the hospitals of Mercy, Félix Maréchal in Metz, Bel-Air in Thionville, Hayange, and the Saint-Jean and Le parc nursing homes, there are 147 Covid patients, including 28 in critical care services. The intensive care unit has 22. As a reminder, during the first crisis in March, more than a hundred intensive care beds were opened.

Uneos Group

The Uneos group (HP Metz) consists of the hospitals, Schuman, Belle-Isle and Sainte-Blandine. In Schuman, six Covid patients are hospitalized on the 16 beds in the intensive care unit. “In medicine,” explains Régis Moreau, the director general, “we have around ten cases in the service, in isolated rooms, without seriousness. “The Uneos group has decided to take the lead by” opening, this Wednesday, a 16-bed unit dedicated to Covid in Schuman and from Monday 11 beds in Belle-Isle.

Claude Bernard Metz Clinic

The Claude Bernard clinic currently has no patients in the intensive care unit. “We have opened a cohorting unit (unit dedicated to this pathology) of fifteen beds, details the director Gabriel Giacometti, of which twelve are occupied. It is a question of concentrating the activity on a single sector to relieve the staff who are subjected to many manipulations. “

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