Last year, Covid-19 became the first nosocomial disease in France, far ahead of all other infections contracted in a health establishment.
A phenomenon far from being absorbed: since the end of December, many health establishments have been hotbeds of contamination, like the Dieppe hospital, where more than 140 agents and 123 patients contracted the virus at the end of January, leading to strong tensions at the staff level and the postponement of
"close to 40%"
non-emergency surgery activity, according to management.
The latter now refuses to communicate on the subject, and the reasons for such an epidemic outbreak remain to be elucidated.
But this case is far from being an exception.
Arras, Menton, Quimper, Pau… The list of affected establishments is growing.
Gilles Pialoux, head of the infectious and tropical diseases department at Tenon hospital in Paris, says he is
"taken aback"
by the multiplication of these sources of contamination and their consequences on the supply.
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