On Wednesday, we learned of the death of a coronavirus patient at Manchester hospital in Charleville-Mézières. Until then, the Ardennes was the only department of the Grand Est which had not known any death in hospital due to the virus, when the Haut-Rhin deplored 411, as of March 31, of 1,126 deaths in the region since the start of the epidemic.
As of Monday, Marie-Odile Saillard, the director of the CHR of Metz-Thionville, gave the alert concerning the Moselle. "This morning, out of 100 open resuscitation beds, 90 are occupied while on Sunday, we sent eleven patients to New Aquitaine," warned the director of the CHR in Metz, quoted by Le Républicain Lorrain . In the department, 180 people were on Tuesday in intensive care or intensive care, out of a total of 947 patients.
Increased capacities
In Meurthe-et-Moselle, the Nancy CHRU had planned ten days ago to double its resuscitation capacity, going from 70 to 140 beds, indicated France Bleu. In addition, 15 beds have been reserved for patients "whose state of health does not yet allow them to return home", a post-Covid unit intended to increase the hospital's reception capacity.
In Marne, the Reims University Hospital took care of 86 patients suffering from the virus on Tuesday, including 41 in intensive care. Here too, the resuscitation capacity has been increased: it went from 13 beds at the start of the epidemic to 49.
Transfers remain essential
In total, 1,160 intensive care beds were opened Wednesday in the Grand Est, including 215 beds in private facilities, according to the regional health agency, against 465 beds usually in the region. Despite this exceptional mobilization, patient transfers to France or abroad remain essential to avoid saturation.
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Indeed, if 918 people were taken in intensive care in the region on Wednesday, 115 patients had been received abroad and more than a hundred others in the west and south of France, on the date of March, 31st.
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