Gilles Simeoni chairs the Executive Council of Corsica.
LE FIGARO. - You consult widely with elected officials and the Corsican medical community. What is your objective?
Gilles SIMEONI. - We would like Corsica to be one of the pilot sites for the trials undertaken to evaluate Professor Raoult's protocol. In Corsica, as elsewhere, we are faced with an extremely worrying health situation. It's a real race against the clock to try to save as many lives as possible. The island has, proportionally, more elderly people than on the continent (78,000 individuals are over 75 years old out of a population of 344,000).
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Our resuscitation capacities are very limited and patient transfers are a difficulty, as we saw recently with the intervention of the Tonnerre helicopter carrier , on the instruction of the President of the Republic. In such a context, we are looking for ways to avoid saturation. Everyone in Corsica, especially the medical community, follows very
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