Eighteen health professionals, five residents in Ephad and a patient from the Carhaix hospital, in Finistère, have tested positive for Covid-19, confirms this Wednesday, November 4, the Brest CHRU, on which the establishment depends.
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At the last assessment, we have 18 professionals and six residents
" tested positive, said Eric Stindel, president of the medical committee of the CHRU of Brest.
Among the six residents, five come from the two Ephads in the structure.
The sixth is a patient in the hospital's general surgery department.
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They are essentially asymptomatic,
" said Stindel, adding that all health professionals had been arrested.
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None has been kept at his post,
" he said, assuring that all the units of this hospital where some 700 people work were functioning normally.
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The workforce has been maintained so that we can ensure continuity of care,
" he said.
Among the doctors, nurses, orderlies and paramedics who tested positive, ten come from the services of polyvalent surgery and polyvalent medicine, five work in Ephad, two in emergencies and one in the service of follow-up and rehabilitation (SSR).
The two affected Ephads have been closed to visitors.
Among the hypotheses put forward to explain this cluster, the contamination of part of the health professionals in their daily life and "
a small relaxation of vigilance
" of the staff during breaks, argued Eric Stindel.
As a reminder, a cluster is defined by the occurrence of at least three confirmed or probable cases in a period of 7 days, which belong to the same community or took part in the same gathering.