Controversy at the intercommunal hospital of Poissy-Saint-Germain-en-Laye – Did nurses really turn their backs on Emmanuel Macron yesterday? “Yes” answers the CGT, “it was voluntary!” – Video

Update Thursday March 18 4:08 p.m .: A controversy arose with these images because some claim that the framing carried out by the TV pool on this sequence broadcast on TV distorts the vision, and a wide shot shows staff listening to the President . See photos below. However, a representative of the CGT, contacted by the site Actu.fr, assures us that “the act of turning your back on the President was quite voluntary. It was to make him understand that his coming was not going to solve everything”.

And a nurse to complete: “Hallucinating scene! They have guts! Sometimes not saying anything is so powerful. “

But the hospital denied to “20 Minutes”: “No professional wanted to ostensibly turn their backs on Emmanuel Macron. These people were on the corner, on the side of the alarm bell, they were ready to go and see patients or families “- visits to this establishment are only allowed in intensive care.”

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The President of the Republic went to the intercommunal hospital of Poissy-Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines). The head of state wanted to take stock with caregivers and encourage them. But the reception does not seem to have been the warmest, as can be seen from the images which were broadcast on the news channels.

We see the Head of State leaning on a reception desk. A caregiver is on the phone and on the left three white coats, clearly have their backs turned while Emmanuel Macron is talking and they clearly ignore him, refusing to look at him or to answer him.

“We will make the decisions that we must take” in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic, Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday to caregivers at the Poissy / Saint-Germain-en Laye hospital center (Yvelines), specifying that the measures to be announced Thursday would be “proportionate” and “territorialized”.

“I can tell you that we will be there and that we will continue to make (…) pragmatic, proportionate and territorialized decisions”, which “correspond to the life of the epidemic”, in order to “protect the most vulnerable and caregivers ”, declared the Head of State in front of a dozen caregivers of the intensive care unit.

After having chaired a Health Defense Council in the morning, Emmanuel Macron began his visit to Poissy by taking stock of the situation, in the company of the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, with officials of this hospital with more than 1,200 beds and of the Regional Health Agency (ARS). He then went to the intensive care and intensive care units.

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