The Ile-de-France Regional Health Agency has asked all public and private health establishments in the region to reactivate their White Plan as of Thursday, December 9.
The region is facing the 5th wave of the COVID epidemic with a situation that has clearly deteriorated since mid-November. The increase in incidence has accelerated in recent weeks, from 101.7 cases per 100,000 as of November 17 to 446 cases per 100,000 currently.
As for the hospital situation, ” the dynamic is clearly on the rise, but remains for the moment more favorable than during the first four waves thanks to the vaccination coverage “, Underlines the ARS which recalls that 86% of eligible Ile-de-France residents have a complete vaccination schedule.
This has not prevented the tension from increasing for several days with currently 1,188 Covid-19 patients in conventional hospitalization against 530 at the end of October and 505 in critical care against 265 at the end of October. Figures that have doubled in a few weeks. ” The majority of patients are unvaccinated The ARS states.
Concretely, the generalized triggering of these white plans ” gives the facility directors, in conjunction with their emergency medical directors, the flexibility to take appropriate management measures at the local level, hospital by hospital. The white plan allows health establishments to increase their bed capacity for Covid-19 patients in critical care and medicine, if necessary by organizing deprogramming, and to reorganize staff schedules to ensure continuity of care », Details the ARS.
In Essonne hospitals, we are therefore preparing for a new pressurization. However, the wear and tear of these almost two years of health crisis is being felt. ” We are facing a staff shortage “, Confirms a director of a hospital in Essonne who also admits to facing a difficulty in asking staff to return to the front” while they have made enormous efforts since the start of the crisis ».
« Caregivers have already given a lot for almost 2 years to deal with the pandemic. It is also our responsibility to preserve them by the vigilance of each one, to curb contamination and hospitalizations. Hospital staff also must take advantage of their end-of-year leave. The white plan must allow establishments to organize themselves in such a way as to ensure “, Thus estimates the Regional Health Agency.
There is also the question of compulsory vaccination for caregivers. Two doses are necessary to meet this obligation. But while the booster seems to better protect the population, it does not fall within the scope of the vaccination obligation. A situation that questions today in the hospital environment.
At the same time, many events cancel each other out in Essonne. Seniors ‘meals, Mayors’ greetings ceremony in January and festive events are disappearing from the agendas. The health crisis therefore continues …
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