Since the discovery of the first case, the residents have been reconfinés in their room, the organization of the establishment having been split into two teams.
A long-term care Facility in the suburbs of Nancy, Nancy, was recorded in a week the death of nine of its residents contaminated by the Covid-19, a-t-we learned this Sunday with the chairman of the Board of directors of the institution, Daniel Cilla. The regional Agency of health (ARS) of the Grand Is that it was on 10 August of the death on the eve of a first patient, over the age of 90 years, in this prison of the mutualist group Acoris, “Les Sablons”, located at Pulnoy (Meurthe-et-Moselle).
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“Since this date and until today, eight other people died, most also aged more than 90 years and with co-morbid factors,” said Daniel Cilla, confirming information of The Is a Republican. “Two of them were end-of-life”, the Covid probably “fast-tracked” to their deaths, he continued, stating that the state of health of four of the other residents was being monitored “very closely”.
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“Since the first symptoms on a person, appeared on 3 August and immediately tested, and the confirmation that she was positive, we carried out 360 tests on all employees and residents,” has yet mentioned Daniel Cilla.
Reconfinés in their bedroom
The Ehpad “Les Sablons” account, at present, about 75 residents and sixty staff members of which eight, including a nurse and nursing auxiliaries, have exercised their right of withdrawal, he added. Daniel Cilla intends to launch Monday an appeal on a local radio station to find the staff in the reinforcement for the weeks to come.
Since the discovery of the first case, the residents have been reconfinés in their room, the organization of the establishment having been split into two teams, one in charge of the boarders with the Covid and the other of those who are not.
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The visits are also “totally suspended”, according to the institution’s president, who deplores the fact that some families were “unruly”, embracing their old parents or visiting them so that they had the Covid. “But the contamination could also come from a member of the staff”, he noted. The ARS Is Great, said for his part that before you save these cases of Covid, the long-term care Facility, located in a town of 5000 inhabitants, “had not previously known positive cases among residents and employees”.
