Stay home! Some 60,000 hospital doctors practicing throughout France, from all disciplines, are represented among the 573 signatories of this cry of alert addressed to the French. Three words they ask the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron to enforce.
In this letter to the Head of State that we reveal, the tone is solemn and the urgency manifested in this fight against the epidemic of the new coronavirus: “We, university professors – hospital practitioners and hospital practitioners in France, heads of clinical, internal, we ask with serious respect for strict home containment measures to our fellow citizens throughout the territory, accompanied by more explicit communication. “
“It is still time”
None of the doctors will want to be named by name to show that it is a whole block that rises to scream his anxiety and his anxiety in the face of the casualness of some. “In Paris, confinement is more or less applied, but almost not in the suburbs, and in the provinces, it’s the same! », Says a signatory. “We have no treatment, we have four times fewer intensive care beds than Germany. Staying at home is the only way to turn off the tap, preventing people from getting infected with each other. “
“We are not yet at the peak of the epidemic and we do not want to have to choose the patients who will be treated. We are eight days ahead of Italy, there is still time, ”insists this hospital doctor, who is also alarmed by the collateral consequences for the other patients, apart from Covid-19. In the hospital, repercussions are already being felt, in psychiatry in particular.
Doctors are not asking for total containment, however. “This has been discussed at length, recognizes another signatory. Let us already apply what has been decreed. “
Council of State calls for reconsideration of exemptions
However, two caregivers’ unions, Young Doctors and the National Intersyndicale des Internes en Medecine (Isni), filed this Sunday 22 March an appeal for interim measures before the Council of State in order to “force the Prime Minister to take urgently the necessary measures ”. At the hearing, they demanded total confinement.
If the highest administrative court refused to “order the total containment of the population”, it “enjoins” the government to reconsider “within 48 hours” the exemptions from confinement. And in particular that for “brief trips near the home” given the major public health issues.
