After Corsica, the “white plan” will also be activated in hospitals in Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur.
This step makes it possible to mobilize all health personnel in order to increase the number of intensive care and hospitalization beds for Covid patients.
Thus, healthcare facilities may face an increase in hospitalizations.
In one week, "and in full period of leave for caregivers as for holidaymakers in our region", explains the ARS (regional health agency) in a press release, "hospitalizations for Covid have increased by 56%" .
In critical care, "this increase reaches 46%".
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The incidence rate in the region also increased sharply in one week, reaching 562 per 100,000 against 404 per 100,000 at the end of July.
"The pressure is increasing every day"
In Marseille, 102 Covid patients were hospitalized in the public assistance services of Marseille hospitals (AP-HM), including 31 in intensive care.
"The pressure is increasing every day," said the AP-HM at the beginning of the week, while affirming that at this stage they did not need to recall caregivers on leave.
"It rises extremely quickly", for her part described a spokesperson for the Sainte-Musse hospital in Toulon, referring to the hospitalizations.
If the hospital does not resort to deprogramming, it has testified to a great difficulty in finding staff.
Tuesday, Corsica was the first metropolitan region to announce the launch of the white plan in its hospitals.
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While Martinique has been reconfigured since Friday and Guadeloupe is preparing to be so from Wednesday evening, Prime Minister Jean Castex chaired a meeting of the Interministerial Crisis Unit on Tuesday, deciding the deployment of 10 resuscitation beds additional in the West Indies by the army health service (SSA) from mid-August, according to Matignon.
