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Xavier is a liberal nurse in Brittany. In an attempt to cope with the coronavirus epidemic, which has greatly progressed in Île-de-France and is undermining hospital capacities in the region, he has just spent ten days in reinforcement in a Parisian resuscitation service. This professional tells Europe 1 about this trying experience facing a deadly pathology.
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"I have never seen that," he says. "I did a lot of resuscitation, I was a military medic for a while ... I don't think anyone will see that. After 15 days, we went up to almost 50 resuscitation beds. I may have seen five cases to leave the service correctly, the other exits were feet in front! The others, we kept them and we fought again. "
"Angry with people on the street"
While the threshold of 10,000 dead has been crossed, sprains to the confinement instructions were observed almost everywhere in France this weekend. "I am angry with the people who are on the street," plague Xavier.
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The Liberal medic fears an imminent increase in mortality: "Even if the effect of confinement begins to be felt, in the next 15 days three weeks, we will have a death toll which will explode. We will arrive at 15 days, three weeks, a month of resuscitation, with patients that we will not manage to improve, whose state of health will deteriorate, and who will leave, "he says.
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Like him, many nurses from the regions little affected have lent a helping hand to their colleagues in areas hit hard by the virus. But already, the capacities of hospitals seem saturated. "What will happen if we do not respect confinement? There will be new cases and it will be a bottleneck in the health system for months," warns Xavier, worried.