The white plan launched in the large hospitals of Alsace last week, an incidence rate constantly rising and higher than the metropolitan average … The health situation is deteriorating in the Grand-Est.
Faced with this situation, “the healthcare structures in our region are again facing strong tensions due to the circulation of winter diseases combined with the epidemic resumption of Covid-19 throughout the territory”, writes the regional health agency (ARS) in a press release.
This is why she launched on Monday a “new call for volunteers from all health professionals to come and strengthen the care structures now and for the next few weeks”. All people who would like to come and lend a hand, retirees, freelancers, health reserve professionals or students are invited to register on the platform. reinfortrh.solidarites-sante.gouv.fr.
In the Grand-Est region, around 80 people were admitted to critical care in the last week of November while 400 people were hospitalized for Covid-19. These figures have continued to increase for a month, according to data from the ARS. The incidence rate, on December 2, was 416 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants, against a national average of 404, according to Public Health France.