The entire Mediterranean area is now affected by the White Plan.
After Corsica and the Paca region, the measure was triggered in Occitania, the ARS announced on Wednesday.
The White Plan makes it possible to mobilize all health personnel in order to increase the number of intensive care and hospitalization beds for Covid patients.
"The importance of the number of serious Covid cases taken care of has led the Regional Health Agency to today ask public and private health establishments to trigger their white plan, an exceptional device intended to strengthen the organization of hospitals in the face of the resumption of the epidemic, ”the ARS said in a statement.
"A rapid and brutal degradation in our region"
The Occitanie ARS justifies this decision by "the sudden and rapid deterioration of indicators in our region", "the strong impact of the fourth epidemic wave" and points out that "hospital admissions in conventional hospitalization and in intensive care are increasing. currently very fast ”.
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