The incidence rate of Covid-19 has exceeded a thousand cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the agglomeration of Dunkirk, recently confined at the weekend, and the hospital has transferred around 80 intensive care patients, including two from outside the region, ARS said on Tuesday.
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In the urban community of Dunkirk, the incidence rate reached 1,039 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, against 910 on Friday, according to the Regional Health Agency (ARS).
In the Hauts-de-Flandre commune community (CCHF), neighboring the CUD, this rate reached 899 cases against 844 at the end of the week.
At the Dunkirk hospital, "
the SAMU is proceeding this Tuesday with the first transfers of intensive care patients outside the region
", with two patients evacuated by helicopter to the Le Havre hospital in Normandy, indicates the ARS in a press release, specifying that "
other inter-regional transfers could take place in the coming days
".
In February, the hospital carried out 79 transfers of intensive care patients to other establishments in the region.
These transfers "take place
while the services of the region are not currently totally saturated, in order to anticipate any future difficulties
" and with "
the agreement of the families
", according to the press release.
"
Faced with the worsening health situation
", the ARS specifies that it has asked public and private hospitals in the region to open 100 additional intensive care beds by the end of the week to increase the number of nursing beds. resuscitation at 800 in the region "
against 460 outside the context of a health crisis
", which will
require
"
the deprogramming of
surgical
interventions
".
The confinement set up over the weekend in Dunkirk is well respected, according to the prefecture.
Between the start of the curfew on Friday and 6:00 a.m. on Monday, 1397 people were checked in the two towns and "
only 137 were fined
", or about 10%, by the 200 police and gendarmes mobilized.
