" We left our old people to die " of the Covid-19 in accommodation establishments for dependent elderly people (Ehpad), accused on Sunday the deputy LR Eric Ciotti, saying " shocked and angry ".
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" We refused to hospitalize people who were infected in the nursing homes, we left them somewhere to die in indifference, without adequate health care ," he insisted in an interview with Radio J.
According to the latest national report communicated on Saturday evening, the coronavirus has taken away more than 4,889 residents of nursing homes and medico-social establishments since the start of the epidemic, which particularly affects the elderly or frail. This assessment " will be the biggest scandal of this tragic moment for our country ", according to Mr. Ciotti, who denounced " a policy of refusal of care by the SAMU of elderly people ", and questioned " choices " which he attributes " to reasons of hospital capacity ", whereas " there were other responses, in particular the request for hospitalization in the private sector. "
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The government announced on Monday that a massive screening campaign would be gradually launched in the Ehpad, which previously could only test the first three suspects of Covid-19. " It is still not done systematically, " lamented Mr. Ciotti, elected from the Alpes-Maritimes where is the Mougins nursing home whose Covid-19 killed 36 residents, prompting complaints from families of four residents .
