Six Covid-19 patients from the PACA region were transferred on March 10 and 11, 2021 to Toulouse.

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Toulouse University Hospital / SAMU

This Thursday morning, on the tarmac at Toulouse-Blagnac airport, the Samu teams were once again on deck to welcome intensive care patients from Aix-en-Provence.

Affected by severe forms of the coronavirus, they were transferred to hospitals in Cahors and Tarbes.

The day before, four other patients from Nice landed on the slopes of Blagnac, to be hospitalized in three clinics in the Toulouse conurbation and at the Toulouse University Hospital.

In total, seven patients from the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region were transferred this week to public and private establishments in Occitanie and six last week.

They were oriented towards Haute-Garonne, Gard, Hérault, Pyrénées-Orientales, Hautes-Pyrénées and Lot.

A means of relieving congestion in the emergency services of the departments of the South-East of France which are saturated by the cases of Covid-19.

A situation of saturation that Occitanie does not know.

At the Toulouse University Hospital, 116 hospital beds are occupied by people affected by the coronavirus, including 19 in intensive care.

A figure in constant decline over the last three weeks, since they were 166 on February 18, including 47 in intensive care.

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