• The Civil Hospitals of Lyon (HCL) point this Monday, via a press release, "a very strong tension in the functioning of the Lyon hospitals".

  • Of the 168 patients with Covid-19 currently hospitalized in the various HCL sites, 52 are in critical care units.

  • This is why the HCL are announcing the launch of the white plan in the face of a fifth epidemic wave.

The number of patients hospitalized due to a diagnosis of Covid-19 has more than tripled (from 51 to 168) for three weeks at the Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL).

This observation, in the middle of the fifth wave, has just pushed the HCL to trigger the white plan from this Monday.

"Faced with the influx of patients in adult and pediatric emergencies, and a significant rebound in Covid-19 activity, the HCLs have observed for several days a very strong tension in the operation of Lyon hospitals", they specify in a press release sent on Monday.

The incidence rate has just exceeded the bar of 600 per 10,000 inhabitants in the Rhône department.

Likewise, of the 168 patients with Covid-19 currently hospitalized in the various HCL sites, 52 are in critical care units.

"Ensure the continuity of emergencies and unscheduled care"

"In addition to this growing activity of patients with Covid-19, there is a significant flow of patients presenting to the emergency room for other reasons, and requiring unscheduled hospitalization," continue the HCLs.

This concomitance of the two flows, in addition to the operational difficulties generated by recruitment difficulties, causes significant tension in the functioning of the CHU.

"This" tension "is particularly felt in pediatric services, where the local winter plan has been triggered, in its level 3, at the Hospital Woman Mother and Child (HFME) in Bron (Rhône).

The decision to trigger the white plan was taken in coordination with the regional health agency, in order to allow the CHU to "carry out additional deprogramming of activity to ensure the continuity of emergencies and unscheduled care, Covid-19 and excluding Covid-19 ”.

This white plan "will also make it possible to gradually arm additional critical care capacities, in particular to accommodate a greater influx of patients with Covid-19".

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Coronavirus in Lille: Faced with the risk of congestion in hospitals, the white plan is triggered

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