Going up in the mountains to get some fresh air is the idea that hundreds of French people have certainly had since the announcement of restrictions taken by the government in the context of the coronavirus epidemic. A way to isolate yourself while avoiding confinement in an apartment of 45 m2.
A temptation against which the members of the high mountain gendarmerie platoon of Luchon, in the Pyrenees, warn against taking reckless risks in the light of the health crisis.
Do not overload emergencies
"The present situation and especially to come is such that each resource, each minute that will be devoted by medical teams to mountain rescue could be cut off from the management of the Covid-19 epidemic in progress, and therefore, in fine, most likely at the expense of another patient. In other words, from now on, each aid is potentially too much aid for hospital services ”, indicated on their Facebook page the soldiers of the PGHM of Bagnères-de-Luchon, in Haute-Garonne.
Admittedly, they will continue to provide rescue service to no one, but they appeal to the civic-mindedness of hikers practicing the mountains and at the same time relay the message of their colleagues in emergency medicine mountain rescue.
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