The Regional Health Agency (ARS) asked this Thursday, March 31, 2022 Sarthe health establishments to activate their white plan, which provides for organizational measures to deal with increased activity. In effect, flu, gastroenteritis and Covid-19 epidemics clog adult and pediatric emergencies.
On the forehead of Covid-19, the regional incidence rate in the general population exceeds 1,300 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (+ 46% over 7 days) and more than a third of screening tests are positive
, indicates the ARS.
In the region, the number of visits to the emergency room for flu-like illness increased by 45% between the week of March 14 and the week of March 21. This is more than the peaks of previous years.
Tension on the workforce
In addition, the ARS states, capacitance voltage
(for the care of patients) that the public mental health establishment (EPSM) of Allonnes has been experiencing for several months has been further intensified for several weeks, when all the psychiatric beds are already occupied.
All these elements occur in a context of strong tensions in medical and paramedical human resources.
, adds the Health Agency. This Thursday, the CGT, CFDT and FO unions at the Le Mans hospital center had alerted to their deplorable working conditions
. As for the South Health Pole, it had to close its emergency room on Thursday March 31, 2022 for 6:30 a.m., due to lack of staff. In March 2022, those of Saint-Calais and Montval closed temporarily. The emergencies of Bailleul close three days at the beginning of April 2022. The EPSM of Allonnes has already launched its white plan on Thursday March 31, 2022.
The ARS details the levers triggered to deal with this situation: The mobilization of the ELSAN group to strengthen the emergency teams of the CMCM [le Pôle santé sud]a request for reinforcement from the health reserve by the ARS, a mobilization of regional solidarity with a call to the university hospital center (CHU) of Angers for support in personnel and/or students, a mobilization of establishments for a call to volunteers.
Patient advice
The Regional Health Agency once once more reminds patients to first contact their attending physician, or failing that, their pharmacist or a nursing home.
In the event of a life-threatening emergency, you must call 15. The ARS formally dissuades Sarthois from going to the emergency room without having called 15 because the waiting times can be very long there, in this period. For relative emergencies, in the evening following 8 p.m., on weekends from Saturday noon and on public holidays, it is possible to contact a doctor on duty by calling 116 117.
To limit the spread of Covid-19, the Agency invites people to respect barrier gestures, in particular the wearing of a mask. in closed places when they are poorly ventilated/ventilated, in places with significant promiscuity, for people who are fragile due to their age or their pathologies.
