The Covid-19 epidemic has claimed two new lives in the medical community. Two doctors from Haut-Rhin and Moselle died on Sunday of contamination from the virus, we learned on Monday.
In Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), Jean-Marie Boegle, a 66-year-old obstetrician gynecologist, died "as a result" of Covid-19, said in a press release the Diaconat clinic, where this doctor had been practicing "for 35 years", demonstrating "flawless exemplarity". "He had contracted the virus from one of his patients during a consultation in his office," said the press release from the clinic.
"Respiratory problems"
"He did not feel very well, he was in his country house for the weekend in Burgundy," his colleague Georges-Fabrice Blum told BFMTV. "He was hospitalized first at the hospital in Beaune (Côte d'Or) eight days ago", then was "transferred to the Dijon university hospital where he was intubated on Saturday" and where he is deceased, added Dr. Blum.
In Moselle, Sylvain Welling, a 60-year-old general practitioner, died at Saint-Avold hospital where he had been admitted for "respiratory problems", said Gilbert Weber, mayor of the Moselle commune of L'Hôpital, where the doctor was practicing. He had been admitted Thursday in the establishment where he died Saturday "in the resuscitation unit COVID-19 unit", said in a statement the hospital of Saint-Avold.
A third death in the Oise
"He was a very active doctor, he was (in his office) very early in the morning and very late in the evening," added Gilbert Weber, not knowing if there were any cases of Covid-19 in his commune over 5,000 inhabitants, located in the east of the Moselle.
These two new deaths bring to three the number of doctors who have died from the coronavirus since the announcement Sunday by the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, of the death of a 67-year-old doctor from Compiègne (Oise), who had taken charge the first patients with coronavirus.
The situation continued to worsen over the weekend in the Grand Est, and in particular in the Haut-Rhin, which has become one of the main French foci of the coronavirus epidemic after a large week-long evangelical gathering. in February. The resuscitation services at Colmar and Mulhouse hospitals are saturated there.
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