The doctor and host Michel Cymès, member of the health reserve, announced Wednesday evening on the set of C à Vous on France 5 that he was requisitioned to lend a hand in hospitals.
"This afternoon, I received an email asking me if I was a volunteer," said Michel Cymès, "not to go as a doctor to the emergency department, but to provide nursing care in the departments in which the nurses are exhausted. I find it extraordinary. I will do it, of course, like all of my fellow volunteers. "
Michel Cymes is part of the health reserve. Called today, he will provide hospital nursing care tomorrow. He explains in # CàVous ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/tvTFG9yGf9
- C to you (@ cavousf5) March 25, 2020The ENT doctor, who gives consultations at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital (Paris XV), explained on RTL that he would no longer be on the air and invited his fellow doctors from the national reserve to do like him. “I appeal to my colleagues because I know they have questions. They are like me, they say to themselves 'it's been thirty years that I have not put an infusion or handle a needle, I will be a dead weight in the resuscitation' ”. Adding, "We're going to be trained. So I say to all my colleagues, go ahead, don't worry. We are there mainly to provide nursing care. Answer the call ”.
"Mea culpa" on the coronavirus
Omnipresent on the air in recent weeks, to comment on the coronavirus crisis, Michel Cymès had recognized that his overly reassuring remarks at the start of the epidemic could have contributed to blurring the message on the need to avoid contacts. "Probably the message did not go well, I am doing my mea culpa too, I probably reassured the French too much," admitted the very media doctor, on the set of "C to you" on March 16.
At the beginning of March, in the program "Quotidien", Michel Cymes had thus explained that covid-19 was only "a form of flu, a little more knocked than the flu, but it remains a viral disease as we have every year ". He had also criticized the media coverage of the subject on other channels and felt that too much was being done.
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