Obstetrician-gynecologist Jean-Marie Boegle, 66, died of the coronavirus on Sunday March 22 at 2 p.m. in Dijon (Côte-d’Or). He had gone to rest in his second home for two weeks. Tired and affected by other pathologies, he was tested for coronavirus, a negative test at first. Eight days ago, the test was positive. He then fell into a coma.
Sunday March 22 the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran confirmed the death of first doctor linked to covid-19. Jean-Jacques Razafindranazy, emergency doctor at Compiègne hospital, epicenter of the beginning of the pandemic in France, died of the coronavirus after being hospitalized in Lille.
Also on Sunday we learned of the death of the first general practitioner to die from coronavirus. Sylvain Weilling, died at the Saint-Avold hospital (Moselle) where he was being treated for severe respiratory insufficiency.
Patient and medical response
This Monday, March 23, many colleagues of doctor Jean-Marie Boegle react to his disappearance. The gynecologist Bernard Servent, now retired from the Diaconate clinic in Mulhouse, said he was very affected by his death following his Covid-19 infection. “He was my oldest student, he had been an intern at Haguenau and then at Guebwiller “.
He then opened his city office in the Tour de l’Europe in Mulhouse, where he was still practicing, while continuing to deliver babies at Diaconat-Fonderie clinic in Mulhouse. He worked until March 12, before leaving for his second home in Burgundy. “He was someone who was friendly, cheerful, funny and very endearing.“, recalls Doctor Servent.
The clinic where Jean-Marie Boeglé worked in Mulhouse until March 12:
Dr. Richard Kutnahorsky, head of the Colmar Pasteur 2 maternity unit and friend of Jean-Marie Boegle talks about a man “remarkable, kind and very professional“, they were interned together at Guebwiller maternity in the 80s.
Israel Nisand greets doctor “passionate, attentive, kind and humorous“, in a tweet:
Jean Marie Boeglé Obstetrician Gynecologist from Mulhouse died this afternoon from COVID 19. Passionate, attentive, kind and full of humor, we already miss him. Condolences to all his family
– Israel Nisand (@inisand) March 22, 2020
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On his Facebook page, he published this photo of him in 2014:
Many of Jean-Marie Boeglé’s patients react on Facebook, like Christelle: “we brought Candice into the world together in a party atmosphere. You know me so well doctor. I think of your wife and children you always talked about. “
Sonia, still on Facebook, reacts: “words fail me so much this news overwhelms me. She was a very beautiful person, appreciated by her colleagues and patients. “
A tribute to music
Nadia Koch knew him very well, she worked as a midwife with him at the Diaconat clinic for six years, before leaving the profession and opening a shop in Colmar. The last time she saw it, she remembers it very well, it was a few months ago, in her shop one evening: “he had come from Mulhouse, and he was someone who did not count his hours, but he had found the time to spend“, she is still moved by this memory.
“He was a good and caring person, jovial, good-natured, always in a good mood, he took care of his patients and he was pleasant with the caregivers and the whole team“, she remembers.
“He was a figure of the Diaconate, we were all upset yesterday to learn of his death”
– Nadia Koch, former midwife of the Diaconat clinic
And then she had also met him in another setting, during a family stay in the Burgundy house of Dr Boegle, guesthouse from time to time. “His children were the same age as me, we were all shocked that he left so quickly and so brutally“.
It hurts my heart not to be able to go to his funeral, because of the confinement. So this is our tribute to us, in music.
– Nadia Koch played a tune and posted the video on Facebook Monday, March 23.
Spontaneously, with her son and her husband on the trombone, and she on the violin, they improvised a musical tribute on Facebook. “He loved music, and then, with confinement, there will probably be no burial, so we thought of doing that, for his wife and children. We would like to support them, see them, be present at the funeral, but since this is not possible, there is this tribute.“
“Amazing Grace”, played on trombone and violin by the Koch family, to pay a final tribute to Dr Jean-Marie Boegle, video published on March 23 on Facebook by Nadia Koch (Coco Bohème):
“Hi Jean Marie BOEGLE.
The entire medical community in Mulhouse is saddened and shaken.
All our thoughts to your family, your loved ones.
CORONA bastard.“explains in a Facebook post the general practitioner mulhousien Patrick Vogt. doctor Vogt is one of the first doctors to alert public opinion to the dramatic health situation in Mulhouse.
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