They did not wait for the peak of the epidemic to reach the front. Elected officials from the medical profession decided to take back their white coats. In Grand Est, the region most affected by coronavirus, the president of the Regional Council, Jean Rottner (LR), ex-chief of service at Samu, continues to exercise his mandate the day from his home. But in the evening, he takes the road to the hospital. "Several times a week, I make phone calls to Samu", where the switchboard explodes. "I have experience of crises, I have known several white plans in my career" , underlines the elected official who is in direct contact with the Élysée Palace, the Ministry of Health and his colleagues who are struggling to find masks .
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In the same region, Senator Véronique Guillotin (Radical Movement) found the hospital in Mont-Saint-Martin, near the Luxembourg border. “I wanted to register on the health reserve but it was complicated. Finally I called the director of the hospital and five
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