While waiting for the first vaccinations against Covid-19 in establishments for the accommodation of dependent elderly people (Ehpad), on Sunday, the toll continues to worsen within these structures.
Thirteen people have died since the beginning of December as a result of Covid-19 in an nursing home in Vence (Alpes-Maritimes), the Regional Health Agency (ARS) said Thursday, the FO union counting 18.
This public establishment, La Vençoise, has more than a hundred residents.
He had organized on December 3, according to the regional daily
Nice-Matin
, a massive screening revealing 74 positive cases among residents and 45 among the 100 members of staff.
According to the Force Ouvrière (FO) union, 18 residents have died in total since the beginning of the month in this establishment, and five are hospitalized.
FO says 110 of 120 residents have tested positive for Covid-19.
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"We ask that the light be shed"
"How did we come to such a high rate?
We ask that the light be shed and we want to know what measures have been taken to protect residents, staff but also families ”, declared Michel Fuentes, FO departmental secretary of public and health services.
The ARS of Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur indicates that it “supported the establishment by mobilizing the mobile hospital hygiene team and the home hospitalization team” and “supported it by organizing the replacement of employees ".
The agency also went on site with a doctor from the departmental council to check that the hygiene measures were correctly applied.
During the first wave of Covid-19, another establishment in the region, La Riviera, in Mougins, recorded 40 deaths out of a hundred people received.
