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Ajax (AFP) – Faced with a “viral explosion” of the Covid while resuscitation beds are full, Corsica calls on “doctors, nurses and nursing assistants”, whether they are “employees, liberals or retirees”, to strengthen island hospitals, a indicated on Tuesday the director of the Regional Health Agency (ARS).
“All the indicators are red in terms of viral circulation”, with 630 cases per 100,000 inhabitants on the island, an incidence rate increasing by 41% compared to last week, warned Marie-Hélène Lecenne, director of the ARS.
These indicators should have “an effect on the hospital at 12 days”, or “in the middle of Christmas vacation”, she warned. An “unfavorable development” is also noted for the over 65s.
However, Corsican hospitals are already tense: at the Ajaccio hospital, seven out of eight resuscitation beds are occupied and four out of four in Bastia. There are still four non-covid resuscitation beds available in Ajaccio and four in Bastia, she said.
In addition, the number of conventional hospitalizations “explodes” with 27 beds occupied out of 27 in Ajaccio, and 23 out of 30 in Bastia.
Faced with this congestion, the ARS took measures “of general deprogramming of all surgical activity”, with the exception of emergencies and oncology, “from December 15 to January 6”.
“I have no choice but to prepare the health system to face a significant increase in the number of patients during the holidays”, argued Ms. Lecenne, inviting volunteer caregivers for reinforcements to join them.
Ms. Lecenne specified that if the Omicron variant had not yet been detected on the island, “several tests show anomalies this week and therefore Omicron will arrive,” she warned.
Asked about the existence of false health passes, Ms. Lecenne said that she had resorted to article 40 of the code of criminal procedure in several vaccination centers, which allows any authority to report a crime or an offense to justice.
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These reports were aimed at “denouncing situations which seemed to us suspicious concerning a few rare cases of health professionals”, she said, specifying that it was “suspicion of issuing a vaccination certificate without administration vaccine “.
In total, 263 people have died since the start of the epidemic across this island of 340,000 inhabitants, according to the ARS.
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