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Eric Ciotti: "Don't let our elders die"

2020-04-13T16:43:12.642Z


TRIBUNE - The health disaster which strikes our Ehpad could have and should have been checked, argues the deputy LR of the Alpes-Maritimes.


Former president of the Alpes-Maritimes departmental council.

In our Ehpad were counted 5140 dead on April 12, more than a third of the deaths of the Covid-19 in France. Behind this figure, undoubtedly much more terrible, hides a real health scandal. For more than a month our country left its elders to die without any real reaction, as if their lives were not the same price as that of other French people. It was not until April 2, more than a month after the outbreak of the epidemic in our country, to get out of the omerta and that finally the deaths in Ehpad are integrated into official statistics.

They are now counted in a specific category which obviously has less importance. This category "dead in Ehpad", that the French discover each evening, is the result of the general abandonment of our dependent seniors. A task of shame in this health crisis.

These dead are our fathers, mothers, uncles, aunts,

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Source: lefigaro

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