Mercredi 14 janvier 2009
The union of doctors Amuf emergency request an extension of the exceptional measures taken for three weeks in twenty schools. Because the flu epidemic threat ....
These measures ( "hospital plan under tension" or "White Plan") adopted by the school director can open places hospitalisaion "closed" (eg lack of staff), remind staff on leave or take charge transfer patients to other hospitals.
Lorient and Quimper
Twenty institutions are or have been affected by these measures. According to Amuf it is, among other things, Lorient, Quimper and Maubeuge (North), Vichy (Allier), Montbéliard (Doubs), Bourgoing Jallieu (Isère), Oyonnax (Ain), Beauvais (Oise).
Yet, for Amuf, comparable measures should be applied in a significantly higher number of schools: "The situation is really catastrophic in many emergency services.
The flu is coming ...
It captures the influenza epidemic that has only just begun, "said the president of the Amuf, Patrick Pelloux.
"In many institutions, emergency calling plans white" without obtaining, he said.
Numerous testimonies
Mr. Pelloux reported evidence of emergency can justify extraordinary measures in Périgueux, Bayonne, Royan, Bayeux (Calvados), Lens (Pas-de-Calais)
Montreuil-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais), Avignon, Dijon or Blois, among other institutions.
Under control?
By contrast, for the French Hospital Federation (FHF, managers of hospitals) "the situation is under control. Perhaps tomorrow morning it will be different now, there is no reason to panic . The directors of hospitals, in conjunction with the prefects, the department know what to do, "said its managing director, Gerard Vincent.
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