Hospitalized after a burnout: this restaurant owner of Essonne on the edge of the abyss with the reconfinement

“You know, he's been in the hospital for two weeks for overwork…” At the end of the line, Shailaja Uprety's voice is shaky.

To avoid tiring her husband even more, it was she who temporarily recovered her phone.

She is also the one who now takes care of running Annapurna, the Indian and Nepalese specialty restaurant that the couple opened in 2016, a stone's throw from the Evry 2 shopping center. “I had to close for a few minutes. days when Prasanta was hospitalized, slips this thirty.

I reopened on Tuesday but now it will be over… ”

"I am still shocked"

Like all restaurateurs, Shailaja will have to lower her curtain again this Friday.

A re-containment that resonates like a coup de grace for most professionals in this sector, already considerably weakened by these months of health crisis.

“If it's possible, I'll try to do take-out with the few staff we still have,” the young woman already anticipates.

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One more concern that comes on top of the long list of bills and concerns that have already been piling up since March for these restaurateurs.

Over the weeks, anguish and fatigue began to affect their physical and psychological health.

Until sending Shailaja's companion on a hospital bed.

"And I can't even go see him because of the Covid", laments the one who has lost about twenty pounds in just a few months.

“I'm still in shock from what happened two weeks ago,” she breathes.

"I haven't slept for a very long time"

That morning, Prasanta had just dropped off their son at school.

He was alone in the restaurant when he collapsed in the reserve.

“I saw him thanks to one of the CCTV cameras that had just been repaired,” explains his wife.

In the process, the cook who lives a few meters away then the firefighters intervene.

“I initially thought it was a heart attack,” continues the restaurateur.

But it was actually like a big panic attack.

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"A burn-out", sums up the person, from the clinic where he is treated.

"It's been a very long time since I slept," he adds in a weak voice.

I was trying to stand up.

I wanted to continue working, to ensure that my clients leave with a smile… But with the Covid, it has become unmanageable.

"

During the first confinement, the couple had already lost more than 70,000 euros.

And the re-containment should not improve the situation.

"The problem is that the directives are constantly changing," plague this thirty-something, who has been fighting for weeks against the distressing thoughts that are circling in his head.

“The government never gives us enough time to prepare,” he laments.

The Covid cases did not start to rise yesterday, they could have warned us before, if only so that we did not order too much merchandise.

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"It was my dream this restaurant"

Among the aid, Emmanuel Macron announced in particular that the State could allocate up to 10,000 euros per month to companies with less than 20 employees losing 50% of its turnover, under the solidarity fund.

Not enough to reassure the couple.

The sum of 10,000 euros would not be enough to keep Annapurna afloat anyway.

“Without counting salaries and contributions, we already have 15,000 euros in fixed charges between rent, electricity, repayment of the credit that we had made for work, etc.

», Calculates the boss, from his hospital bed.

"If the confinement continues, we will not have 36,000 solutions, we will have to go out of business", he already worries, before adding: "This restaurant was my dream ... It's my whole life.

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Reconfinement: Restaurant owners already at the end of their rope