The entrance to the Pasteur 2 hospital at the Nice University Hospital - SYSPEO / SIPA

  • The CHU of Nice records a decrease in the number of patients in intensive care.
  • In collaboration with the ARS, hospitals in Nice will be able to disarm part of the units opened to treat the new coronavirus.

"We have fifteen patients with Covid-19 in intensive care at the moment whereas we were at 40 less than two weeks ago". Charles Guépratte, the director general of the CHU of Nice, announced this Thursday "a reorganization of the supply of care" enabled by a "lull" in the epidemic of new coronavirus.

According to the official, in Nice, the "R zero", that is to say the average number of people to whom a patient is at risk of transmitting the disease, "is now 0.6 compared to 3 before beginning of confinement ".

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"Do not suffer from another health crisis"

"Even if hospitalizations for non-serious forms decrease less quickly, we will be able to disarm part of the system, the ceiling of which has never been reached," he specifies. In collaboration with the Regional Health Agency [ARS] Paca, we will therefore be able to reprogram a number of things. "

With the launch of the white plan on March 15, at the start of the epidemic, the Nice University Hospital postponed non-urgent interventions. “We have been in this mode for six weeks. And what was non-urgent then can generate complications today, points Charles Guépratte. We should not suffer from another health crisis for patients who are affected by other pathologies than Covid. "

Thierry Piche and Charles Guépratte in videoconference this Wednesday - CHU de Nice

Some 1,200 beds available

"This concerns all cancers, cardiac pathologies or even all chronic diseases and conditions", specifies Pr Thierry Piche, president of the medical commission of establishment at the CHU of Nice. "We have 1,200 beds available in secure routes outside of Covid," says the specialist, inviting all the patients concerned to contact their doctor or hospital facilities directly.

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This new device, which will deactivate units previously devoted to the care of patients affected by the new coronavirus, "will be reversible in 48 hours" in the event of a new epidemic peak, assures Charles Guépratte. "This will allow us to be able to absorb flows if new contamination clusters or waves of cases arise in nursing homes in particular," explains the director.

This Thursday afternoon, according to the last count of the ARS Paca, 270 patients tested positive for the new coronavirus were hospitalized in all the structures of the Alpes-Maritimes, including 48 in intensive care. The epidemic has left 111 dead in the department.

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