This is called a flamethrower shot. While retail chains are preparing, this Monday, May 4, to market masks for the general public in their stores, seven orders of health professionals (doctors, pharmacists, nurses, physiotherapists, etc.) were indignant, in a common text of rare violence, the abundance of the number of masks announced as soon to be marketed.
“Every war has its profiteers. How can we explain that our caregivers could not have been equipped with masks when we announced staggering figures of masks sold to the public by certain distribution channels, "they indignant, evoking their" disgust ", and asking where these masks were, when they, the caregivers, or the patients "and especially the most fragile", needed them. Today, these masks fall "in profusion, 100 million here, 50 million there, it is the escalation of indecency", they drop.
"This controversy is not worthy," immediately reacts Jacques Creyssel, the president of the Federation of Commerce and Supermarkets (FCD). “The government has asked pharmacists, but also tobacconists and mass retailers to provide masks to all French people. We are very proud of this new mission, which we will carry out from Monday, May 4, without making any margins. In addition, he underlines, "the figures announced are those of orders placed, which will arrive gradually". And to conclude: “We should all be proud to have been asked for this. "
Large retailers have given their stocks of FFP2 masks to caregivers
For its part, Carrefour specifies that the brand initially ordered "a stock of 70 million surgical masks" for its employees. Then, while "the government asked large retailers to organize themselves to offer them to the general public", "we have secured orders, which means that we have placed firm and secure orders, which we will put on sale - at cost price - as and when they are delivered. "
Regretting this "outrageous and defamatory" press release, also recalling that the signs were never responsible for the purchase of masks for caregivers "and that they even gave them" their stocks of FFP2 masks from the start of the crisis ”, the FCD asks the health orders to“ urgently correct this false communication, as has just been done by the order of dental surgeons ”.
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