- General practitioners and city health professionals have few overalls available.
- The latter are however very useful for caregivers so as not to contaminate their own clothes.
- A woman from Nantes therefore launched a website calling for solidarity.
She started with an observation: "City carers are ill-equipped in front of the Covid-19". To make up for this lack, Pauline Jeanmougin, general practitioner in Nantes, launched with friends the #FaisUneBlouse website which, since Saturday, has been able to bring together all over France caregivers who report a need for gowns and citizens who can donate or sew it at their home.
"To annihilate the virus, a priori you have to wash your clothes at 60 degrees for at least 30 minutes," said the practitioner, who practices in the Saint-Donatien district. Wearing a cotton blouse, for general practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, home helpers or even medical secretaries, once you return home "allows you to undress, shower, wash your hair before really reconnect with our family life ”. Ideally, each caregiver needs two or three gowns to allow a rotation in the washes, but "we are very badly equipped," she worries.
Online patterns for those who know how to sew
The instructions are precise: you need long-sleeved blouses, with or without buttons, which ideally go down to mid-thigh or below, without pocket and in thick cotton. Donors are asked to report their donation project online and then come and drop off the gowns, during one of their authorized outings, at their doctor's office, at the SOS doctors center, on call centers and in the nursing offices which remain open.
For Pauline Jeanmougin, solidarity has already worked thanks to a mother from her daughter's school who heard about the initiative. “She told me that she had made a blouse for me that I am recovering this evening (…) it really gave me immense pleasure, it warms my heart to have this kind of news”, she explains.
The donation of gowns can also allow people in confinement "who are sometimes a little idle, anxious, to have a real action and to feel invested, to do something for their local caregivers", notes the thirty-something doctor.
For those who know how to sew, patterns are online on the site. All fabrics, white or mottled, are authorized. Chemists' coats, often put away in the closet by students after high school, also do the trick.
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