(ANSA) - PARIS, 08 OCT - This morning in Ile-de-France, the Paris region, the "Plan Blanc", the emergency plan that allows to mobilize all the resources of the hospitals in the presence of a crisis .
This was announced - given the Covid-19 emergency - the director of regional health Aurélien Rousseau - explaining that the epidemic "begins to be felt again in resuscitation and in hospitals".
The plan allows us to "mobilize all the resources of the hospitals and anticipate the next few days," he said.
The "White Plan" was decreed on March 6 for the first wave of Coronavirus and extended to the whole country on the 13th of the same month.
The "Plan Blanc" measures were also reactivated in the hospitals of the Lyon region from 22 September.
Level 1 of the Emergency Plan allows you to better prepare yourself to welcome the sick, increase the number of intensive care beds and postpone some non-urgent operations.
It also allows you to summon reinforcement personnel and above all to increase the beds in resuscitation, the main concern in these hours when - in the Paris region - the number of Covid patients in resuscitation has exceeded the threshold of 40%
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