Geneviève Darrieussecq, minister camouflaged on mission at the military hospital

Only his voice betrays his identity. "It was she who allowed me to recognize you , " Florence Parly confided to him later. Visiting the Percy military hospital in Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine), this April 16, the Minister of the Armed Forces did not immediately discern her colleague from the government. Mask, glasses, gown, charlotte, gloves ... Geneviève Darrieussecq has exchanged her clothes as Secretary of State for the Armed Forces for the equipment of caregivers in the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic.

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Patients with symptoms of the disease are unaware that a member of the government is in the process of examining them. The only minister personally involved with patients during the health crisis, the 64-year-old allergist doctor joined the "Covid cell" two weeks earlier, in complete anonymity - until Le Figaro revealed her activity at the end of April. Three mornings a week, from late March to mid-May, she helped the medical teams.

“I cannot sit back and do nothing” , explained Geneviève.

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