A bed for a Covid-19 patient (illustration) -
PHILIPPE MAGONI / SIPA
Cases detected in the services in addition to patients who flock from outside.
Nearly 80 people, 39 health professionals and 39 patients, have tested positive for Covid-19 since Friday at La Palmosa hospital in Menton (Alpes-Maritimes).
They are, for the most part, asymptomatic, according to management.
The hospital, which employs 550 people for 265 beds, set up a screening campaign on Friday.
It made it possible to detect these patients, twelve of whom are patients in long-term care units.
An upsurge (also) in the arrival of external patients
At the same time, the hospital is facing an upsurge in arrivals of Covid-19 patients.
“Since April, we have had a Covid sector which, at most, between March and June, received an active queue of eight patients for 16 beds;
we reopened this service in September with another 16 beds, but last Friday, faced with the influx of positive patients at emergency level, we had to move to 25 Covid beds, 22 of which are currently occupied, ”said the director of the hospital. establishment, Odile Capitani-Dollo.
To cope with this influx, the hospital has called on local solidarity and is organizing transfers of the most serious patients to hospitals in Nice, Monaco, Breil-sur-Roya and Sospel.
"The situation is under control," assured the management.
Visits are prohibited in the long-term care sector.
The imaging department, where the first source of infection was detected, is also closed.
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