US EditionReunion Island hospital boss calls for reinforcements amid virus outbreak
- The head of a hospital service on Reunion Island called for medical reinforcements Sunday.
- He appealed for aid to manage an epidemic of mosquito-borne chikungunya disease.
- The outbreak has severely strained hospital capacity, prompting postponed operations and staff recalls.
- Since early March, 540 medical staff have been off work after contracting the disease.
- The service has received three doctors but needs six more to adequately cope.
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Chikungunya in Reunion: ARS announces the reinforcement of "six doctors" this week while "the number of visits to emergencies remains high"
"There are some severe forms, especially among the elderly who have comorbidities and among the few children under six months of age," explains Gérard Cotellon, Director General of the Regional Health Agency of La Réunion, Monday on franceinfo.
Reunion Island hospital boss calls for reinforcements amid virus outbreak
Hospitals on the French Indian Ocean Island of Reunion are reaching breaking point amid a chikungunya virus outbreak that has claimed six lives since January, affecting one out of nine people. Health officials are calling for urgent reinforcements to manage the crisis, just days before President Emmanuel Macron’s scheduled visit.
Overtaken by the chikungunya epidemic, the director of the CHU de La Réunion demands reinforcements
The hospital in La Réunion is facing "a great tension", warns its director Lionel Calenge, while six people have already died since the beginning of the epidemic, whose peak could soon be exceeded.
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