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Charles Dos Santos
Published on
Jan 10, 2025 at 10:02 a.m.
The epidemic of flu spreads throughout Occitania. Among the impacted departments, the Gard is already seriously affected.
This is what forced the management of the Carémeau hospital center to Nimes (Gard) to trigger level 3 of the “Hospital under pressure” plan.
Influx to emergency rooms
The announcement was made by the management of the health establishment, at the very end of the day, Wednesday January 8, 2025. The center must face a combined increase in “cases flu, Covid 19 and bronchiolitis », Specifies the hospital center.
This situation has the direct consequence of a “ very high attendanceobserved at the emergency reception service at the Gard site,” explains the University Hospital.
Mobilization of all staff
The White plan is not triggered, for the moment. But all staff are now mobilized to deal with this situation. In an attempt to reassure the population, hospital officials assure that this decision is designed to best respond to a unusual situation .
Of the non-urgent operationswill be deprogrammed. Reinforcements of nursing staff have arrived, particularly in the emergency department.
260 !
Questioned by our colleagues atHere Gard LozèreDoctor Sylvain Benenati explains that the public welcomed in the emergency room of the hospital center are “ very fragile patients who need oxygen support and who, for a greater part of them, must be hospitalized.”
Asked by Actu.fr on the situation in his establishment faced with this flu epidemic, Jean-Philippe Sajus explains that “the Bagnols-sur-Cèze site currently accommodates up to 80 people per dayin emergencies and for comparison, in Nîmes, they exceed the 260 passages ».
Going to the emergency room is not an obligation as soon as one of the symptoms of the flu occurs. To prevent the situation is getting worsethe management of the Nîmes health establishment invites the Gardois to consultas a priority their usual general practitioners.
“If no offer is available or in the event of a vital emergency, it is imperativeto call 15 before going to the emergency room», recalls the Hospital Center.
A widespread epidemic throughout the region!
Requested on Thursday January 9 by Actu.fr, the Occitanie Regional Health Agency (ARS Occitanie) published a complete situation update the same day.
It reports an epidemic in an ascending phase throughout Occitania for the fourth consecutive week. The spread of the virus has seriously accelerated over the past two weeks.
The figures released by the Agency as of Thursday January 9, 2025:
.. 1003 passages were recorded for flu-like illnesses,
.. 228 people are hospitalized,
.. 40 of them are in a “critical” health situation according to the criteria of the regional agency.
Caremeau Hospital Center. 4 place du Professor Robert Debré in Nîmes (Gard). Such. : 04 66 68 33 44. More information on Facebook and on the CHU website.
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