We no longer applaud them at 8 p.m., but caregivers are still at the heart of the fight against Covid-19.
After a year of battle, the fight is still raging in the hospitals of Val-d'Oise.
And even more in recent days.
As of March 19, according to the latest figures communicated, Val-d'Oise was indeed one of the departments of Ile-de-France where the incidence rate - number of positive tests per 100,000 inhabitants - was the highest. high, namely 655.6, just behind Seine-Saint-Denis and its 682.9.
This inevitably has an influence on hospitalizations.
This Monday evening, there were 574 people hospitalized in Val-d'Oise due to Covid-19, 12 more than the day before, including 66 in intensive care.
We must go back to May 26 to find such a figure with 567 hospitalizations, which was not even reached during the second wave.
Above all, the occupancy rate of intensive care beds is 115.5%.
Figures that do not unduly surprise specialists, such as Edouard Devaud, infectious disease specialist and coordinator of the health crisis at the Pontoise hospital.
“The Val-d'Oise is a little poor in intensive care beds, slips the doctor.
Given the incidence rate, it is a little normal that we have this occupancy rate.
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The practitioner can see it in Pontoise.
“We had a break in the curve that we have seen since the start of the year,” explains the doctor.
We had five Covid-19 patients permanently since the end of the second wave.
Everything accelerated on Wednesday with a big increase, which accelerated a little further this weekend.
This Monday morning, there were 17 patients and 10 Monday noon.
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For the doctor, it is necessary to look at the dynamics of flow, between the entries and the exits of the patients.
“At the moment, there are more entries than exits,” blows the professional.
The establishment still has a margin with 32 beds in conventional hospitalization.
"When a bed becomes available, it is immediately occupied"
In Eaubonne, where a crisis unit was held on Monday, there is also a significant increase and we are preparing to open additional beds in intensive care.
There are currently 9, to which must be added 3 continuing care beds in pulmonology and 3 critical care beds in short-term hospitalization units (UHCD).
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In Gonesse, the 10 beds out of 18 in the intensive care unit dedicated to Covid-19 have been permanently full for two weeks, as have the 39 beds in the conventional hospitalization department affected by the virus.
"We have seen a slight increase in care, but we are not in the situation of last year, where we were only doing Covid, explains the management of the establishment, which on Tuesday noon held a cell of crisis.
But on this landing, when a bed becomes available, it is immediately occupied.
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Hope lies in the opening of new vaccination centers
As of March 22, after hospitalization, a total of 6,673 patients have returned to their homes in the department.
On the same date, 1,567 people have unfortunately died in hospital since the start of the epidemic.
Many hopes are based on vaccination to try to bring these numbers down.
This Monday, the bar of 60% of people over 75 years of age vaccinated was passed in Val-d'Oise.
A center opened in Sannois on Monday.
Other openings are planned in Franconville, Villiers-le-Bel or Auvers-sur-Oise, on Monday March 29.