Soon the return of nursing homes closed to the public? In the Lower Rhine, in Barr, an establishment has decided to stop receiving relatives of residents from Wednesday due to the discovery of eight new cases of Covid-19 among the hundred residents. The management takes this measure as a precaution before the Christmas holidays, when more visits are more numerous.
He wants to do everything possible not to relive the scenario of the spring of 2020. In a few weeks, 29 elderly people had died of coronavirus in this establishment.
“They are separated from the world”
Therefore, since the middle of the week, all group activities have been cancelled. And the meals are served directly in the residents’ rooms since they are confined there… whether or not they are positive for Covid-19.
A measure too strict for certain representatives of the sector, such as Pascal Champvert, president of the association of directors of services for the elderly (AD-PA).
“It is absolutely necessary to confine only people who are positive for coronavirus. The impossibility of leaving the residents, the impossibility of receiving from the public means that they are isolated from the world. It is unacceptable,” he denounced into the microphone. from BFMTV.
few vaccinated
The epidemic is not only rising again in the Lower Rhine. According to information from RMC, around sixty clusters have been identified throughout France in nursing homes, i.e. 25% more cases in a week.
Only one in five nursing home residents is fully vaccinated, the Health Ministry estimates. On Tuesday, December 6, the ministers François Braun and Jean-Christophe Combe had already signed a letter to the directors of Ehpad, urging them to strengthen the vaccination effort and the application of barrier gestures. The challenge is that these establishments do not close “so that precautions are not synonymous with social confinement,” specifies the ministry.
Source: BFM TV
