Is this an isolated initiative of a hospital director or is it an expression of indifference to the experiences of the mentally ill? The facts happened in the silence of confinement, in a psychiatric hospital where, for fear of the virus, the patients were locked up – and to make it even more effective, with changing the locks of the rooms.
The Dr M., 36, is a psychiatrist at Moisselles hospital (Val-d’Oise), near Paris. She says straight away: “I do this job because I like people.” Then tell this Monday, May 11, 2020, the first day of deconfinement in France. This is what she says in a testimony that she transmitted to us: “In the ward, I learn that three patients tested at the end of last week are positive for Covid-19. The abatement wins the team a little. We have been working as best we can for two months, with tools that are not ours. The service is closed, our patients must stay alone in the room, we
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