It is the 6th death of a doctor made public since the start of the Covid-19 epidemic. The east of France is once again mourning. A hospital doctor died of coronavirus while he was in intensive care in a facility in Moselle, announced Monday Marie-Odile Saillard, the director general of the regional hospital center (CHR) of Metz-Thionville.
"We have several doctors in intensive care today," she added without giving further details on the identity of the victim. "A little more than forty hospital staff" were contaminated with Covid-19 within the CHR, she said, adding that "in these people you also have people who are sick, but not seriously ill". She sounds the alarm about the lack of beds in intensive care and launched a call relayed by BFM TV
đź’¬ "We have no choice but to ask for help"
The alarm cry from the director of the Metz-Thionville CHR about the impossibility of opening new beds in intensive care ⤵ pic.twitter.com/nLu660ZnfJ
She requests the daily transfer of 12 patients. "We have more patients transferred to Germany," says Sébastien Gette. We have the impression that the Germans are making more efforts than the rest of France, ”confides to the Lorraine Republican Sébastien Gette, head of the resuscitation department of this CHR.
Since the start of the epidemic, the deaths of five other doctors have been made public: an emergency doctor from Compiègne (Oise) on March 22, then the following day a 66-year-old obstetrician and gynecologist and a 70-year-old general practitioner both practicing in Haut-Rhin, one of the main foci of coronavirus contamination in France, as well as two general practitioners aged 60 and 68 in Moselle and Haute-Saône.
"Front line infantrymen" in the war against the coronavirus, doctors exercise their profession "at their own risk, as we see unfortunately", had reacted with bitterness the general union MG France, the day after this weekend particularly dark for those who constitute "the first resort for many patients".