Patients from Lyon transferred by plane to outside hospitals.

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PHILIPPE DESMAZES / AFP

  • According to the weekly report of the civil hospices of Lyon, the number of hospitalizations continues to "grow strongly".

  • This Tuesday, October 27, 554 patients were registered in public hospitals in Lyon and 767 in the rest of the Rhône and Nord Isère departments.

  • Patient visits are now prohibited and all operations have been deprogrammed.

“All of the indicators are developing unfavorably”.

The figures communicated Tuesday by the HCL, Lyon's civil hospices during its weekly report on the coronavirus epidemic, are not good.

And confirm the imminence of a second wave promising to be stronger than the first.

Within a week, the number of hospitalizations continued to grow sharply.

On the morning of March 27, 1,321 patients were registered in the hospitals of the territory, including the statistics of the establishments of the Rhône but also the figures of the CHU of Vienne and Bourgoin-Jallieu (North Isère).

Among which 554 patients hospitalized in HCL including 107 in intensive care.

By way of comparison, the week of March 18 (the first of confinement), 154 coronavirus patients were in the HCL departments, including 28 in intensive care.

Or three times less.

Deprogramming of activities and visits prohibited to patients

The week of March 24, they were 322 (including 67 in sheaves).

You have to go back to March 30 to find almost similar figures.

Figures which then went on crescendo until April 6 before gradually falling.

Faced with this “still tense” situation, the HCL were forced to take a new step in the deprogramming of its operations, which now concerns “all activities” including outpatient surgery and inpatient medicine activity. complete.

In addition, 200 intensive care beds have been opened to date in the various public hospitals in Lyon.

Patient visits are now prohibited.

Finally, the HCL began to organize several transfers of Covid + patients to establishments located outside the department.

Sixteen of them have already been sent to Chambéry, Annecy, Valence, Montélimar but also to New Aquitaine (Bordeaux, Brive-la-Gaillarde, Poitiers, Angoulême).

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