The Regional Health Agency has noted an increase in people infected with Covid-19 with serious forms, we learned yesterday at a press conference organized at the Prefecture of Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin .
Since August 17, 19 additional positive cases for the coronavirus have been recorded by the health authorities bringing the number of active cases to 85. The Regional Health Agency also informs that three people have been transferred to the CHU of Guadeloupe to be admitted into service. resuscitation. 4 people are still hospitalized at the Louis-Constant Fleming Hospital Center. The Regional Health Agency notes an "increase in the number of serious cases" and confirms an increase in activity, in connection with the epidemic at the Saint-Martin hospital center. Among the 85 positive cases recorded by health authorities in recent weeks, only one case would not be indigenous. 30% of the recorded cases would be "secondary" contact cases, informs the ARS. “Regarding the distribution of ages, we have people aged 30 to 50” notes the ARS. A massive screening campaign ended last week. 824 PCR tests were performed. 47 came back positive. The positivity rate, i.e. the number of positive tests compared to the number of tests performed, remains below the vigilance threshold, but the incidence rate is higher than the reference threshold (+50 cases / 100 inhabitants)
Nursing staff under stress
According to our information, the personnel of the Louis-Constant Fleming hospital center are sorely lacking in material and human resources. "Some caregivers are off because they are exhausted, because they have been on the rope for too long", testifies an anonymous source who operates within the hospital. “We are not in sufficient number to carry out our missions. We sometimes have to give up our work to urgently manage the covid + cases that arise ”. Patients "increasingly younger", worries the staff we have been able to approach.
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