Faced with the sharp increase in the number of cases of coronavirus, a general practitioner of Tourcoing attacked Monday evening on Europe 1 to the management of the crisis by the government, and in particular the maintenance of the first round of the municipal elections there are one week.

TESTIMONY

It shows a very fed up in the medical profession. "Anger is immense among doctors," says Bertrand Legrand, general practitioner in a sensitive urban area of ​​Tourcoing, in the North. On Europe 1, Monday evening, this practitioner denounced the maintenance of the first round of municipal elections, in full explosion of the number of cases of coronavirus.

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As the epidemic gained ground the week before the election, with more than 700 cases per day on average, the government decided not to postpone the poll, based on the recommendations of the Scientific Council. "It's irresponsible", Bertrand Legrand gets carried away. "We see that the number of people affected is only increasing. These elections were a disaster in epidemiological terms, it is criminal to have maintained them."

"Shameful"

A week later, the municipal elections seem far away against the 860 dead that France counted Monday evening. "You hear very little of the doctors' anger, because we have something else to do and we are there to treat our patients", continues Bertrand Legrand.

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The northern practitioner mentions the shortage of equipment, which makes his work more and more complicated: "The fact of not having masks, I had an endowment of 50 masks and a construction company delivered me five combinations so that I can go to palliative care at home… We are in a country which does not even respect the simple fact that the doctor can give the last care at home. It is really shameful, "he denounces. "The patients who won't be hospitalized, we can't even go home if we don't have coveralls. I find myself with a patient, his 80-year-old mother takes care of him, he's 50, both of them are going to be contaminated. You can't even imagine. "

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And Bertrand Legrand to point out the general behavior of the French population at the time of the epidemic. Will the French rush to Plaquenil, a drug that contains hydroxychloroquine, a molecule used by Pr Didier Raoult in Marseille? "The French must be responsible," calls the general practitioner, before another rant: "They've already stuck our masks, they've stuck our hydrogel, we have nothing. There are resuscitators who get around without even having the right mask… Frankly, stop, there will be no doctor to treat you. "