" It warms the heart.
I am proud for my husband.
He didn't die for nothing.
»Sabrina, the widow of Doctor Ali Djemoui, general practitioner in Champigny-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne) in the Bois-l'Abbé district, has just learned from the Parisian that her husband was part of the promotion of January 1 receiving the Legion of Honor.
She had received a letter from the regional health agency (ARS) last November asking her if she was okay with seeing her husband later decorated posthumously.
But she had since forgotten it.
"He is made a Knight of the Legion of Honor, that's class," she smiles.
I will present the medal to our 9 year old son.
He is aware that his father is a hero.
"
"He died on the front"
Doctor Djemoui died of Covid-19 on April 2, 2020, at the age of 59, after weeks of saving lives in his office in Champigny, almost without a mask, just a few gowns and no support.
“I think of all the patients he treated,” says Sabrina Djemoui.
He worked hard until the end.
He was exhausted.
I told him to stop, to rest.
He didn't listen to me and wanted to be with his patients.
He even hid me when he went for a consultation until 11 p.m.
"
His dedication will cost him his life.
"He died on the forehead," sums up his wife.
But Ali didn't know he was going to die.
I couldn't say goodbye to him.
The Covid at the time, we thought it was a flu.
"
Provident insurance still blocked
Today, she continues to struggle to rebuild herself.
“Christmas and New Years have been very trying.
We missed him so much… ”she blurted out, moved.
She has resumed work as a nurse in the operating theater and takes care of her children, whom she tries to have recognized as wards of the State.
She fights again and again with the administration to touch the provident insurance indemnities to which she could claim.
“But everything is still blocked, it's absurd!
"
Finally, concerning the Bois-l'Abbé office which she owns, she has been renting it out to several doctors since October thanks to the invaluable help of other general practitioners and the medical order.
Her husband's successor is due to graduate in April.
She can then sell the premises to him.
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In the meantime, Sabrina Djemoui lets mourning do its work.
As every Sunday afternoon, she went with her children to the Muslim square in the cemetery of Thiais to meditate at the grave of their beloved knight.
Many other recipients in Val-de-Marne
Health crisis obliges, health professionals are numerous among the decorated with the Legion of Honor in this promotion of January 1, 2021. Among them, figure for example the doctor Hervé Hagège, president of the medical commission of establishment of the hospital intercommunal de Créteil, who is also head of the hepato-gastroenterology department at the Créteil (Chic) and Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (Chiv) sites.
Doctor Jean-Noël Lepront, general practitioner in Champigny-sur-Marne and above all secretary general of the departmental council of the order of doctors of Val-de-Marne, is hailed for his 27 years of service to the public.
Doctor Olivier Henry, who works in geriatrics at the Emile-Roux hospital in Limeil-Brévannes, is also honored.
Other local players will also receive the prestigious distinction such as Abdel-kader Guerza, prefect delegate for equal opportunities, with an atypical career for the senior civil service.
The man began his career in the direction of hospitals before becoming sub-prefect hors classe in 2006. Since then, he was for example sub-prefect of Rambouillet, of Palaiseau, director of cabinet of the prefect to the secretary general of the prefecture of Paris ...
Brigitte Marin also becomes a knight of the Legion of Honor.
This woman is well known to future Ile-de-France “teachers” since she heads the National Higher Institute for Teaching and Education (Inspé, ex-Espé) at the Créteil academy, at Upec.
She mainly chairs the network of national institutes.
Sophie Burosse, deputy director of the penitentiary integration and probation service (SPIP) of Val-de-Marne, will also receive the medal for her 31 years of service.
Finally, Raphaël d'Hahier, known as Raf Urban, is in the spotlight.
This artist is a stencil artist from Saint-Maur-des-Fossés to whom we owe the first confined urban art festival launched in spring 2020 for the benefit of the AP-HP foundation.
“More than a person, it is a whole project that is honored, a team, reacted the recipient.
They are also the 208 artists mobilized and who answered our call, allowing to propose no less than 273 works.
Without forgetting the buyers of these works which raised 87,715 euros.
"And to conclude:" This is further proof that culture is an essential good for all!
"