The coronavirus sick and who can not effectively be confined in their homes will be " put away " and " away " from the decontainment, assured AFP the director of the regional health agency Paca, Philippe De Mester.
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On Monday, doctors participating in a special screening system in the working-class districts of Marseille reminded the authorities of " the extreme need to find accommodation " for sick people living in overcrowded apartments.
" For the deconfinement everything is ready for shelter: we have identified two places in Martigues and Marseille and we are trying to open others, " explained Philippe De Mester. " From the start, we had a look at these neighborhoods because we know that there are living conditions that can be favorable to the development of the epidemic, " said Philippe De Mester, adding that the ARS had supported the screening operations in these neighborhoods.
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While the doctors deplored not having "been able to shelter anyone " since April 20, Philippe De Mester assured: " If we had been asked for accommodation, we would have had possibilities but that didn ' was not the case ”, evoking the cases of a person who“ changed his mind ”and a minor, whom the ARS could not take care of.
In several interviews with AFP, doctors from the North Hospital, Doctors Without Borders and the Malpassé health center (13th arrondissement) reported that patients were “ reluctant ” to stay away from their families during their quarantine. According to Aloys Vimard, NordCovid coordinator at MSF, " with deconfinement the number of positive people will increase, and eviction is the only solution to break the chains of transmission ".
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Regarding the high prevalence of the virus in the poor neighborhoods of Marseille, Philippe De Mester explained that if at the beginning of April, the cases were very numerous, “ today we are on 4 to 6% of positivity in these territories, as in the rest of the department . " " There is a circulation of the virus, but it is not as catastrophic as one might fear, " he concluded.
