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The white plan was triggered in several regions of France in an attempt to cope with the pressure on hospitals due to the fifth wave of Covid-19.
While hospitals are under pressure in the middle of the fifth wave of Covid-19, seven regional health agencies have triggered the white plan. Occitanie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Pays de La Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Corsica and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur are concerned, as is Île-de-France . the journalist Nicolas Fleury, live Wednesday, December 8 in front of the Georges-Pompidou European hospital, in Paris, for the 8 Hours, explains that this white plan aims to “reorganize services by reassigning hospital staff to critical care“.
The number of hospitalizations is increasing everywhere in France. In Occitania, “some resuscitation services are already full“, adds the journalist. The incidence rate also exceeds 400 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in most regions. Non-emergency interventions are also scheduled to be canceled.
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