the Annecy Genevois hospital center activates the white plan
The Annecy Genevois hospital center, the CHANGE, a new aspect the white plan this Wednesday, December 1, to deal with the fifth wave of Covid-19, we have informed the Samu 74. Objective: to welcome and take care of as well as possible the more and more patients who come to all the sites hospital staff of the department.
“At center 15, we have doubled, or even almost tripled in two weeks, the daily demands”, Explain Thierry Roupioz, head of Samu 74-Center 15. “We have gone from ten calls per day for Covid situations, to 35 to 40 since the start of the week, so we can clearly see that the rise is very important”.
“Last week we also had a significant request for the intensive care services but which was not only linked exclusively to Covid, there were many other pathologies, Covid patients were added to them, resulting in saturation important resuscitation beds throughout the department, whether in the north with the CHALE (Alpes Léman hospital center) and Thonon, but also in the south with the Annecy resuscitation “.
80% of patients who arrive in the Emergency Department are unvaccinated
“The problem is that of the patients who arrive, most are unvaccinated”, continues Dr Roupioz. “We first have recourse to conventional hospital beds, medical hospitalization, but in certain situations, the deterioration of the patients occurs in the days that follow and require intensive care, these are unvaccinated patients. those who have detected respiratory distress, it is known during the first waves “.
This Wednesday evening, according to the latest data from Public Health France, 60 people were hospitalized in Haute-Savoie for cases of Covid-19, including 13 in critical care. In Savoie, 49 Covid patients were treated in the department, including 5 in critical care. Incidence rate in Haute-Savoie: 414 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (424 in Savoie).