Best wishes … a meaningful expression to the‘Montluçon hospital (Allier). In fact, 2021 may well have relayed 2020, the Covid-19 remains more relevant than ever. And Bernadette Mallot, the director of the said hospital center, took advantage of the last day of the year, Thursday evening, to redo a update on the situation.
An increasing number of deaths
Since the start of the second wave at CH, 102 people died from the coronavirus. “We went from thirty to fifty Covid-19 patients in two weeks and six are currently in intensive care”, details the manager, who notes a ” upsurge of emergency room arrivals ”.
A third Covid unit
The establishment’s first Covid unit (26 beds) as well as the second (20 beds) are saturated or in the process of being. Result:
We should open for the first time a third sector dedicated to Covid in the coming week.
Bernadette Mallot (Director of the CH de Montluçon)
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Meetings are held in this regard in order to prepare its implementation.
Coronavirus: pressure remains strong in the three hospitals in Allier [30/12/2020]
The third level of the white plan soon reactivated
While the hospital had recently come down from the third to the second level of its white plan, so that caregivers can legally take time off in December, “We will probably have to go back to the third level,” says the director.
“Everyone here is on edge, very tired. As of December 21, 210 of our agents had already contracted the virus themselves since the start of the pandemic. But it is surely more now. “
Bernadette Mallot (Director of the Montluçon hospital)
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Start of the vaccination campaign
Said vaccines will initially be reserved onlyresidents and staff of retirement homes. “We could start the week that arrives in our nursing homes, or at the latest by January 15”. And according to a first census, “three-quarters of our residents have agreed to be vaccinated”.
Covid-19: a cluster in the Cuvelier pavilion of the Néris-les-Bains (Allier) nursing home [31/12/2020]
Other projects for 2021
The health crisis will not be the only news for the hospital in 2021. A “nature room” for childbirth will notably be inaugurated this January. The rehabilitation of nursing homes de Courtais (in Montluçon) and des Hirondelles (in Néris) are also on the program. “It’s a 17 million euro project over three years,” says Bernadette Mallot. “Our file has been validated by the department and the regional health agency”. A tender in order to find a prime contractor will therefore be launched during this first quarter of the new year.
Néo, Nessa and Neila: the first three babies born at Montluçon maternity (Allier) in 2021 [01/01/2021]
Text: Luc Barre
Photos: Florian Salesse (archives)
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