around twenty hospitals have activated the white plan

These plans allow establishments to take exceptional measures to cope with the influx of patients in emergency rooms.

Hospitals under pressure, facing a major seasonal flu epidemic. If the Ministry of Health is not able to give an estimate of the number of hospitals in “white plan”, at least twenty hospitals in France have triggered it in the face of the influx of patients in their emergency services, according to a count carried out by AFP based on information published online by establishments or the administration.

These plans allow hospitals to take exceptional measures, such as deprogramming certain operations, reassigning or recalling staff members from leave. According to several sources, this count is probably underestimated. “In Pays de la Loire alone, we have six white plans”Dominique Savary, the head of Angers emergencies, told AFP.

The new Minister of Health, Yannick Neuder, interviewed in Rennes on the sidelines of a trip, recognized that this multiplication of blank plans “reflects well the state of tension in which our health system finds itself.” “One of my priorities will be to promote everything that can produce care in the region”pour “avoid systematic recourse to emergencies”.