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JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT
At CHVR hospitals there were 124 patients on Sunday, 10 of them in intensive care. The increase is steady and worrying, Bonvin said.
The current situation is comparable to that of the peak of the first wave on March 23. This time, however, measures against the pandemic were taken later. “Next week will be very difficult,” Bonvin said.
Therefore, a crisis team will be in action from Monday. In the current situation, the hospital center depends on outside help. “We will see to what extent we can transfer patients to other structures,” Bonvin said. Therefore, Valais patients could be transferred to Oberwalliser hospital and then to other cantons.
Another problem is that nursing staff are also increasingly affected by infections. You wouldn’t get infected at work, but in private. Currently, 50 members of the medical staff in the French-speaking part of the canton are already infected with the coronavirus and can no longer work. Their number was increasing day by day.
