According to the total drawn up as of Wednesday evening, 29,319 French people lost their lives due to the coronavirus. Certain segments of the population, forced by their activity to remain the most exposed to the disease, have paid a particularly heavy price. Among them, the carers were obviously the first to go to the front. It thus appears that at least 50,000 of them have been contaminated with Covid-19 since the start of the crisis.
A survey by the French doctors’ pension fund, published on June 3, showed that 6,000 self-employed doctors have, since March, applied for sick leave compensation, or around 5% of the profession. 46 of them also died of the virus.
The Public Health agency France also delivered its work on June 4. They indicated that 30,258 caregivers had been infected in hospitals and 16,300 in nursing homes. There are 16 dead among them.
“I’m trying to apologize to the authorities but …”
And this census only concerns 1160 hospitals out of 3000. Anne Berger-Carbonne, responsible for the infectious diseases department of Public Health France, commented on the microphone of BFMTV: “I am hopeful that in the end we will have figures which are as exhaustive as possible or in any case that with them we can make valid extrapolations “.
The Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, the famous “APHP”, deplores the contamination of 5000 of its caregivers. Eric Caumes, head of the infectious diseases department at Pitié-Salpêtrière, asked:
“The real problem that had to be managed was that of the lack of nursing staff. In the same way that we have a shortage of hospitals and beds, we also have a shortage of nursing staff. I am trying to apologize to the authorities … But honestly what happened to these staff shocked me a lot. “
Claims
Claire Loupiac is the widow of Eric Loupiac, an emergency doctor from the Jura who died of coronavirus on April 23. He was officially the fifth hospital doctor to die due to the virus. His wife decided to file a complaint against the management of the deceased’s hospital for endangering the lives of others and negligence. For her, the death of Eric Loupiac is the conjunction of a lack of equipment and personnel.
“They were only two doctors the day, sometimes with a general practitioner. However, the number of passages doubled. The masks were not in sufficient quantity so he knew that he could not cope with this epidemic which is was propagating exponentially so I didn’t want it to go but I didn’t know how to stop it, “she told our teams.
While the “Ségur” de la Santé is being held at the moment (from the name of the street where the ministry headed by Olivier Véran is located), the caregivers called on Tuesday to lead a day of action to demand more means and protection.
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