This is the first time since the start of the second wave that patients from the Grand-Est have been transferred to Germany.
At the end of October, patients from the South East had already been transported to the west of France.
These transfers, started on Thursday, concern patients "in critical care": one from the Bel Air hospital in Thionville, at least one patient from the Sarreguemines hospital center and one from the Saint-Avold hospital.
They were directed to hospitals in the Land of Sarre, on the border with France and located a few dozen kilometers from Thionville.
The CHR of Metz Thionville (to which the Bel Air hospital is attached) specified that its services "are not currently saturated" but that these transfers were made in order "to anticipate any risk of saturation of services.
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A peak "in mid-November"
The hospital currently hosts 147 patients with the coronavirus, including 28 in "critical care", that is to say in intensive care and in continuing care units.
However, the CHR has however pointed to "difficulties in arming" additional beds because of the "lack of nursing staff" while the epidemic peak according to the projections of the Pasteur Institute an epidemic peak "in mid-November".
For its part, the Sarreguemines hospital, which has gone from 9 to 14 resuscitation beds in recent days, is also "in the process of ramping up to accommodate the additional flow of patients".
"It is stretching, but we are not yet, in our case, at the same level as what we experienced in the spring," says the establishment.
At the time, up to 21 intensive care beds had been occupied.
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During the first wave of the epidemic, 330 patients from Grand-Est had been transferred to other French regions and abroad, by military plane, helicopter or medical TGV in particular.