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At the La Colle-sur-Loup nursing home, the other front of the coronavirus

2020-03-30T19:18:31.654Z


THROUGHOUT CONFINED FRANCE - The retirement home in the hinterland of Nice is fighting to prevent the virus from infecting its residents.


He is a colorful doctor, with a generous physique, who could be straight out of a novel from the south of France. Jean-Christian Raymond landed his plaque in the center of La Colle-sur-Loup in 2015, but he was not yet quite ready to retire.

His last professional adventure, he wanted it collective and put his thirty-eight years of experience at the service of the Ehpad in his hometown. While France is struggling to contain the Covid-19 epidemic, it is pleased to be able to be useful on another front, which is not that of a resuscitation room or an emergency department: protect these fragile elderly residents from the onslaught of a virus that is particularly threatening to them.

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" We are fighting to avoid using hypertechnical care ," says Dr Raymond, coordinating doctor at the Ehpad. For the moment, we have no case in our establishment thanks to the measures that we have put in place and because

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Source: lefigaro

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