The white plan was triggered in the Occitanie region after being triggered in Corsica and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, the Occitanie ARS announced on Wednesday.
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It is now the entire Mediterranean area that is affected by this measure, which makes it possible to mobilize all health personnel in order to increase the number of beds in intensive care and hospitalization of Covid patients.
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The importance of the number of serious Covid cases taken care of has led the Regional Health Agency to today ask public and private health establishments to trigger their white plan, an exceptional device intended to strengthen the organization of hospitals in the face of the resumption of the epidemic,
”the ARS said in a statement.
The Occitanie ARS justifies this decision by "
the sudden and rapid deterioration of the indicators in our region
", "
the strong impact of the fourth epidemic wave
" and points out that "
hospital admissions in conventional hospitalization and in intensive care are increasing. currently very fast
”.
