By Arielle Bossuyt
Published on 18 Mar 21 @ 8:16 pm
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Beginning of 2021, the appearance of vaccines against Covid-19 sparked hope after a turbulent year.
Since January 9, 2021, all nursing home residents who accepted the vaccination received their dose. At the same time, the hospital center opened one of the first vaccination centers in Eure and a second was made available on March 3, at the former César-Lemaître college in order to extend vaccination to more of 75 years and to people of 50 years minimum being suffering from comorbidities.
More than 4,500 people vaccinated
Nowadays, 144 professionals from the Eure Seine Hospital Center in Vernon were vaccinated or are being vaccinated. In vaccination centers in Vernon, 4,697 people received their Pfizer or Astra Zeneca doses (130 vaccines). A small glow at the end of the tunnel, which, a year ago, seemed very long.
Triggering the White Plan
March 13, 2020, the Eure-Seine hospital center in Vernon launched the white plan with the implementation of a crisis unit which makes it possible to adapt the organization of the hospital according to the progress of the virus and to call back staff.
Five days later non-urgent operations and consultations were unscheduled. We were counting then 156 confirmed cases in Normandy, the 4th region in France least affected by the pandemic.
On March 23, 19 resuscitation facilities were made available to nursing staff at Eure-Seine Evreux / Vernon hospitals, and a few days later, the Vernon site was organized to take care of patients in hospital units dedicated to Covid-19.
–More than 9,000 PCR tests carried out since May 11
In April, as the epidemic reached its peak, a territorial platform bed management in public and private establishmentss was in place. On April 14, systematic screening of residents of the Auguste-Ridou nursing home was achieved. Covid + residents were transferred to the 3rd floor of the establishment.
A month later, as the epidemic curve was declining, the government announced the deconfinement and the start of PCR tests. From May 11, 2020 until March 15, 2021, 32,001 PCR tests were carried out, including 9,107 in Vernon.
Drives set up
From August, new infections were identified among hospital staff. At the start of the school year, the drives set up for Covid screening in Eure Seine hospitals received more than a hundred people every day on the two sites, Evreux and Vernon.
Despite the performance of tests to identify Covid patients, the department has passed in the red zone, end of September and the white plan has been reactivated in hospitals: two Covid units have been created, one in pulmonology for severe cases and a second for patients in remission.
In November, 1,158 people were hospitalized, including 137 in intensive care, in Normandy and 30% of non-priority activities were canceled.
At the end of December, the vaccination campaign was launched and the first doses administered at the Eure-Seine Hospital Center, a pivotal establishment, from January 5 to health professionals, volunteers, aged over 50 or at risk of severe disease.
In vaccination centers in Vernon, such as the hospital here, 4,697 people received their dose.
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