The white plan was triggered this Friday at the René-Dubos hospital in Pointoise due to a power failure. Fourteen patients were transferred.
The René-Dubos hospital in Pontoise (Val d’Oise) suffered a power cut on Friday. According to Parisian which reports the facts, the establishment was plunged into darkness around 2:30 pm after a “power failure in the loop between ERDF and the site”, said Alexandre Aubert, director of the North West Vexin Val-d hospital group ‘Oise.
According to the daily, one of the two emergency generators failed to start. At around 7.45 p.m., however, two new replacement generators arrived and ERDF intervened to repair the failure.
Crisis unit
A crisis unit was immediately set up. It has chosen to supply electricity only to priority services (resuscitation, intensive care, emergencies, laboratory, pharmacy), specifies the prefecture. Electricity, however, was cut off in other services. The SAMU, firefighters and ambulances have been instructed not to bring patients to Pontoise hospital anymore but to transfer them to other establishments.
The white plan, a protocol planned by the health authorities to deal with exceptional situations, was triggered at the hospital. Of the 900 patients currently treated, fourteen were transferred to other establishments in the department, as a precaution. These are mainly patients who were in intensive care. They were sent to neighboring hospitals Argenteuil, Eaubonne, Beaujon (Hauts-de-Seine), Beaumont-sur-Oise, Gonesse and Sainte-Marie d’Osny clinic. They will not return to Pontoise before Monday.
“At no time was patient safety called into question,” said Doctor Agnès Ricard-Hibon, head of Samu 95, quoted by franceinfo. At midnight, the prefecture announced the lifting of the white plan and the return of electricity throughout the establishment.
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