The Samu will ensure the transfers (illustration).
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C. Allain / 20 Minutes
Dunkirk and Pas-de-Calais are preparing to experience a new weekend of containment due to a very active circulation of the coronavirus in these territories.
Besides the very high incidence rates, the second reason which motivated the authorities to take such a radical measure is the saturation of hospital services, especially in intensive care.
To reduce the pressure, the Regional Health Agency (ARS) is organizing patient transfers outside the region and, since Wednesday, outside France.
When the health situation became critical in the Dunkirk sector, the regional health authority very quickly decided to direct a number of serious cases of Covid-19 to other hospital structures in Hauts-de-France.
For a month now, more than 90 patients have been relocated, some of them outside the region.
Except that it is not enough yet.
Nearly 350 patients in intensive care in Nord-Pas-de-Calais
To date, according to Public Health France, 349 people sick with Covid-19 are hospitalized in intensive care in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais.
A high figure that leaves little room for maneuver.
Thus, the ARS has decided to set up transfers of “patients in critical care to Belgian health establishments”.
The health authority specifies that these transfers will be made to border hospitals and that they can take place "from today [Wednesday] or in the coming days".
The number of people concerned will depend on the reception capacities of the targeted establishments in our neighbors.
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