A cluster of at least seven people was formed within Professor Raoult's IHU Marseille.
Among them, a technician was admitted to the intensive care unit at the end of March and a hospital practitioner, close to Didier Raoult, was hospitalized.
Both were undergoing treatment with hydroxychloroquine.
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L'Express
highlights the failings of the institute, and the culture of silence that reigns there. Several members of the IHU, worried about directives going against the accepted scientific discourse of the institute, decided to testify to the weekly, anonymously, for fear of reprisals.
In the survey, several employees mentioned meetings, seminars and conferences held without a mask, despite the cluster identified and known to the authorities.
“
Didier Raoult continued to organize and attend 'staff meetings', which take place every Tuesday between noon and two, and seminars open to outsiders, organized at the same time every Friday, in the amphitheater of the IHU, where the barrier gestures are little or not respected, all this while the cluster was in progress
”, thus tells an employee.
The influence of Professor Raoult
The institute follows in the footsteps of its sulphurous director. His close associates are loyal to him and share his positions. Others are less convinced, but fear opposing the boss, as about hydroxychloroquine, still prescribed to Covid-19 patients who go to the IHU. "
Doctors who do not prescribe
[hydroxychloroquine]
are few in number because they fear that the IHU's internal software - which allows management to follow prescriptions - will betray them ...
says a source from
L'Express
.
And those who really do not want to prescribe write false statements in this software, in order to have peace
”.
At the Hôpital de la Timone, a prestigious establishment in Marseille, a doctor is concerned about the silence of the Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille, the structure which oversees the medical establishments of the agglomeration, including the IHU of Professor Raoult . "
Everyone knows what is happening at the IHU: people who crack, go on sick leave, go to occupational medicine, but the AP-HM does nothing,
" he says.
“
There is a whole part of the IHU which operates in a vacuum,
with a leader who is never contradicted and who exercises a real grip, who does not hesitate to crush and publicly despise those who are not 'agree with him
,' sums up an employee. Only, the cluster seems to have changed the situation. About fifteen close collaborators of Didier Raoult would have taken advantage of one of his trips to Senegal to be vaccinated.
