In her blouse made by volunteer seamstresses, her face hidden behind a mask too large for her, Delphine Bagarry remains incognito. "Mrs. Bagarry, it was you who took care of me, I didn't know you were my deputy!" exclaims a patient, taken aback as he walks by. On this spring day 2020, in a confined France, the country deputy-doctor is working in the intensive care unit of the Manosque hospital, in her stronghold in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
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When the confinement was announced, Delphine Bagarry hastened to join the hospital, in need of doctors. “It was a duty. I have always considered my profession as a public service mission, ” says the elected official, who resigned at the beginning of March from La République en Marche (LREM), due to disagreement on the government's pension reform. His region is little affected by the epidemic but the doctor welcomes new patients every day and applies the protocols recommended by the infectious diseases specialists at the hospital.
Delphine Bagarry has listened to both patients and nursing staff. We suffered from understaffing during the crisis and she answered our questions
A caregiver from the serviceTo his
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