“It is a point of national vigilance. At the Brest CHRU, we have a second child in pediatric intensive care for covid presenting an acute respiratory syndrome, this Friday ”, underlines Dr Catherine Théréné-Mouden, vice-president of the medical commission of the Brest CHRU, without power. specify whether or not these children present with co-morbidities. “Three others are hospitalized in a pediatric medico-surgical unit and one in oncology. In Brittany, they are the only children in intensive care for covid ”, she continues, indicating that they are in the unvaccinated bracket of 5-11 years. “The figures are worrying, because there is less capacity in pediatric intensive care than in adults. It will be difficult to increase them ”.
Quiet situation for adults
As for adults, the situation remains calm, out of the five patients in covid intensive care, two are transferred Corsican patients. In addition, the CHRU has 16 covid patients in conventional hospitalization and a few in follow-up and rehabilitation care. There are also covid patients who arrive at the emergency room but whose condition does not lead to hospitalization.
The Keravel nursing home cluster has died out. There is no longer a positive resident, and only one death occurred at the very beginning.
A plan to absorb up to 20% of absentees
The wave of covid is also affecting hospital workers. They were about twenty in stoppage last week. This Friday, they are 120 (out of 6,600), including nine in Carhaix, and every day between 10 and 15 new agents are affected. “There is no cluster at the hospital. These contaminations took place within the family. For the moment, we manage not to deprogram, nor to close beds. There is also no question of recalling staff who are positive for covid, but who are asymptomatic. Business continuity plans will make it possible to adapt to the progression of outages ”, adds Florence Favrel-Feuillade, general manager of the CHRU de Brest, who specifies that absenteeism has fallen from 8.70% to 10.5% . “The continuity plans count on a rate of 20% absenteeism, reached in other affected countries, sometimes up to 40 to 45%”.
Management also insists on the rule of a one hour visit per patient per day. “There are tensions with families who consider that with their health pass, they can freely come and not wear a mask. This is not possible, if we want to avoid circulating the virus in the hospital ”.
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