The Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, currently the most contaminated in France, has recorded a very high plateau of new cases which is keeping the hospitals and their staff under high tension, already severely tested for several weeks, the regional agency announced on Friday 11 December. health.
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The epidemic situation is better than at the beginning of November, but unfortunately it has stopped improving in the region.
We are on a very high plateau, which is very worrying and places an extremely heavy burden on the healthcare system
, ”said Pierre Pribile, director general of the ARS de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, during a videoconference. Press.
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We still have more than 1,700 people hospitalized in the region, a figure still higher than the spring peak.
In intensive care, we recorded a slight drop, with 194 cases
”, but the pressure is still strong on these services.
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We make sure not to put hospitals in a situation of saturation so that they are able to accommodate Covid or non-Covid patients in intensive care, but the more time passes, the more interventions that could be postponed can no longer be carried out. 'be, which justifies transfers to other regions from time to time
, ”added the Director General of the ARS.
Since the start of the second wave, the region has recorded 240 transfers between establishments, including 16 outside the region.
One patient was notably evacuated yesterday to the Grand Est.
In Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, the incidence rate on December 7 was 180 / 100,000 inhabitants, the highest in France, with three departments particularly affected: Yonne (199.9), Jura (200.5 ) and especially the Doubs (238.6).
The positivity rate in the region is 8.9% (12.5% for the Doubs), the second highest in France after Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (9.9), for a national average of 6, 4%, added Pribile, adding that he still recorded 100 deaths in nursing homes and 130 in hospitals last week.
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The teams are holding up, with a mixture of strong commitment, the will to fight, to defeat the epidemic, and fatigue which is not demobilizing
", assures the person in charge, but according to him the hospitals in the region will have to "
Prepare to take a rebound situation due to the Christmas family reunion
".
