Muriel Fartoukh is head of the resuscitation service at Tenon hospital in the XXe district of Paris. Today, his team is enjoying some respite, with 17 beds occupied by Covid-19 patients compared to 42 at the height of the crisis. A breath of fresh air that does not prevent him from remaining extremely vigilant. “Things … Read more
They drooled. Sweat. Coughed. Sometimes kept a log of their symptoms. They managed their fear or considered making a will. But they survived. With or without antibiotics. With or without the famous chloroquine of which the Marseille professor Didier Raoult extols the merits. “98% of people recover”, recalls Jérôme Salomon, the director general of health … Read more
D-18. The patient in room 172 has been fighting the Covid-19 for the last eighteen days. Intubated and ventilated, the man is 52 years old. Several probes gravitate around his naked body. His cheeks are pale, his eyelids yawn, his swollen hands are motionless. Everything seems extinct in him. Only his chest moves, under the … Read more
They evoke a “enemy”. Sometimes see themselves as “Infantrymen”. They have much more “Fear for others” that they do not fear falling ill, without playing the heroes: “This is our job”, they say. Nurses, interns, emergency physicians, resuscitators, hematologists, psychiatrists… Their lives are now entirely dedicated to saving patients from the coronavirus. What is their … Read more
When the night service gives them some respite, the nurses at Besançon hospital confide in this colleague who has come for a few days. And to the member too. Emmanuelle Fontaine-Domeizel, elected LREM and former liberal nurse, was sent there, for a week, to the service of infectious diseases, to reinforce caregivers in tension because … Read more
For three days now, around 8 p.m., the confined French have been applauding them from their windows. These thanks and encouragement, to say the least welcome, undoubtedly put a balm on the hearts of hospital staff. The fact remains that at a time when the Covid-19 is deploying in France and mobilizing more and more … Read more
Test or not test? Faced with the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, the question becomes more and more of a dilemma. Is France able to test all patients who fear being infected with Covid-19? Certainly not. Hospital services will now even focus on the most serious cases, when, according to the latest report from the … Read more
Embolized hospitals, overwhelmed doctors, forced to abandon in the corridors of patients corroded by the coronavirus and, finally, the whole Italy brutally placed in quarantine. Enough to revive questions about what really awaits France when the epidemic wave hits. On Tuesday, the death toll was 1,784 people infected in France (372 more in 24 hours) … Read more
It is 10:26 a.m. in Romainville (Seine-Saint-Denis) and the milestone of a thousand calls to the toll-free information number on the coronavirus is already on the way to being crossed, barely 90 minutes after the opening of the service. This Thursday, February 27 promises to be charged for the thirty operators, headsets screwed on the … Read more