Coronavirus: in Creil, patients flee the hospital, general practitioners go “to combat, but unarmed”

Dn the town of Creil (Oise) affected by the Covid-19 epidemic, patients fled the hospital where the first patient who died from the disease had passed. City doctors are drowning in requests for appointments.

FFP2 protective mask on the face, Yaya Boudjemai accompanies his last patient to the exit before locking the lock with a double turn. Behind his desk, he collapsed in his chair after having received sixty patients today, against forty usually. “Since the onset of the Creil epidemic, it’s been madness “Says the general practitioner. […]

The office is a few minutes’ walk from the hospital, deserted since the death on the night of February 25-26 of a 60-year-old teacher and the large number of staff in the fortnight. Witness its empty parking lot for a few days. On Sunday, March 1, only 48 adult crossings were recorded in the emergency room, compared to 120 usually, one of the staff said. “Patients are afraid to go there and get sick, so they fall back on their treating physicians, says Yaya Boudjemai. A woman disfigured by an infection, for example, flatly refused to go there. ” […]

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