- Over a week, there were 164 less hospitalized people in Alsace on Sunday (-79 in intensive care).
- A drop observed in hospital services, where the risk of saturation is moving away.
- However, activity remains above the usual level and establishments remain vigilant.
Alsace had 1,965 people hospitalized on Sunday because of the Covid-19, including 324 in intensive care or resuscitation. An impressive number, but which has decreased significantly over a week, falling below 2,000 hospitalizations.
Key data for hospitals, the number of patients in intensive care has also decreased, freeing up 84 places over a week. In the Haut-Rhin, hospitals have been able to start reducing the airfoil in recent days, taking advantage of this improvement after a very trying peak.
The state of deputy Jean-Luc Reitzer has improved
The field hospital installed by the army in Mulhouse has thus reduced its capacity, going from 28 to 14 intensive care beds. The Mulhouse hospital group reported on Friday of seven places available in intensive care out of 76, with a risk of saturation which continues to recede.
After being taken in intensive care at the Mulhouse hospital, the Haut-Rhin deputy Jean-Luc Reitzer is "no longer intubated" and "his condition is improving" according to an internal note from the deputies LR, cited by Le Figaro . Her parliamentary assistant confirmed at 20 Minutes a "slight improvement" but urged to "remain cautious".
A call to nurses and caregivers
The Mulhouse hospital now needs "reinforcements" explains the director of communication, Aline Winninger. Because of fatigue and sick leave, the establishment remains "looking for nurses and nursing assistants" to supplement the workforce. An 11-bed post-resuscitation respiratory care unit has been set up to monitor patients leaving intensive care.
At the Colmar hospital, "we are still working a lot, but we have significantly fewer Covid patients in intensive care," says doctor Jean-François Cerfon, head of one of the institution's three intensive care units, which is starting "To see other patients again".
The question of deconfinement
At the height of the epidemic, people who presented with other pathologies had indeed been taken care of in a recovery room transformed into a resuscitation room. They begin to return to the usual units. A gradual return to normal: for the moment, only urgent surgical operations are performed. Relieved of the "very marked decrease" in requests for resuscitation for patients suffering from coronavirus, Dr. Cerfon is now waiting "to see what will happen at the start of the lifting of confinement", fearing other "small peaks" of the epidemic.
In addition president of the council of the Order of the doctors of Haut-Rhin, Dr. Cerfon calls to "maintain the connection with Germany" which was established with the transfer of tens of patients. “In Alsace, at the start of the epidemic, all the ambulances went to Strasbourg, Mulhouse and Colmar. In the event of a new emergency, we would have to see if we could immediately send part of the victims to Germany to avoid such a large number of arrivals at a few sites, ”he explains.
In the meantime, several patients transferred to other hospitals have now returned to Colmar. "They are extremely tired and take a long time to recover, in pulmonology or in Covid units," says Dr. Cerfon.
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