Coming from Mâcon in Paris to help her colleagues in the fight against the Covid-19, Alexandra Bailet has been working in the intensive care unit of Bichat hospital for a little over a week. The woman who volunteered chose night hours "to further relieve her colleagues, so that they can see their families during the day."
She takes care of two to three patients every night, "which is huge." Patients who range from "25 year olds, to 55 year old men and women" and who change every day. She explains that the Paris hospital has tripled the number of intensive care beds, but deplores the lack of equipment and trained personnel to support this additional burden.
The nurse volunteered until May 1, and will then decide whether or not to extend her stay in Paris. She fears the arrival of a new wave of patients in hospitals which "would be catastrophic for caregivers" exhausted by work. "What I find absurd is that the streets of Paris are full of people walking around (...) they are on the street and continue as if there was no confinement."
Find all of his testimony in the video.
