Europe 1 with AFP 11:06 am, December 2, 2021
The Strasbourg University Hospital announced on Thursday that it would trigger the white plan, a device allowing it to mobilize additional resources in the face of the new epidemic wave of coronavirus.
As of November 28, the incidence rate in the Bas-Rhin department stood at 400 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the national average of 311.
The Strasbourg University Hospital, faced with "the continuous increase in hospitalizations of Covid patients", announced this Thursday to trigger the white plan, a device allowing it to mobilize additional resources in the face of the new epidemic wave.
"The number of hospitalized patients doubled in the space of 15 days and corresponds to the peak reached in May 2021 with 74 patients, including 18 in intensive care", indicates the CHRU in a press release.
An incidence rate above the national average
These hospitalizations are added to a hospital context "in high tension", specifies the hospital, with "more than 650 regulatory files per day at the Samu, including 30-40 Covid cases and more than 200 patients per day in the services of emergency room". This is the third white plan launched at the Strasbourg University Hospital since the start of the health crisis, after those of spring 2020, when Alsace had been particularly affected by the first wave, and of winter 2020/2021.
As of November 28, the incidence rate in the Bas-Rhin department stood at 400 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the national average of 311, according to the latest figures from CovidTracker.
This departmental rate has tripled in two weeks (135.5 to November 14).
On Wednesday, the Haut-Rhin hospitals of Colmar and Mulhouse had also activated the white plan, to "face a significant need for Covid beds".