Patients transferred by medical plane from Saint-Etienne, in the Loire, a metropolis strongly affected by the coronavirus.

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Damien MEYER / AFP

  • Auvergne Rhône is the hardest hit by the Covid-19 epidemic.

  • To relieve the resuscitation services, patients were once again transferred Wednesday to the Pays-de-la-Loire.

In the region, the most heavily affected by the epidemic, resuscitation services are suffocating.

On Wednesday, to unload them, eight new patients from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes were transferred by medical plane to Pays-de-la-Loire, bringing to 43 the number of transfers made since mid-October.

On Wednesday, these patients from Lyon, Bourg-en-Bresse and Saint-Étienne were evacuated to Nantes, Saint-Nazaire and Angers aboard an A400M military aircraft, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) said Thursday.

The forty transfers made in recent weeks have been to New Aquitaine (23), Pays-de-la-Loire (18) and Brittany (2).

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Decided "in coordination with the crisis unit of the Ministry of Solidarity and Health", they are carried out "in anticipation to free up places in intensive care and prevent any tension and saturation of establishments", explains the regional agency.

They are "organized with regard, on the one hand, to the situation observed daily through indicators and in particular the occupancy rate of intensive care beds in health establishments, and on the other hand on the basis of projections (from the Institut Pasteur in particular) on the evolution and dynamics of the epidemic in the region ”, specifies the ARS.

Indicators still on the rise

In Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the indicators are still on the rise, making this region the most affected by the second epidemic wave.

"According to the latest figures available, we are at an incidence rate of 866 per 100,000 inhabitants and a number of hospitalized people which reaches 5,888 people including 717 in intensive care or intensive care, for a capacity of nearly 1,000 beds", indicated a spokesperson for the ARS.

The highest incidence rates are still recorded in Loire and Rhône, followed by Haute-Loire, Ain and Isère.

The Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), a set of 14 public hospitals, said on Tuesday that the cumulative total of Covid patients admitted on November 3 (729) exceeded the peak of patients recorded during the first wave (727 patients on April 7 ).

In addition, 25 interdepartmental transfers were also made from establishments in the Rhône, Loire, Drôme, to Puy de Dôme, Drôme and Savoie, according to the ARS.

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