In Tinténiac, in Ille-et-Vilaine, a gymnasium was requisitioned by doctors to accommodate consultations related to the coronavirus. - Damien Meyer / AFP

It opened Thursday morning. Abandoned by sportspeople, the gymnasium in the municipality of Tinténiac, north of Ille-et-Vilaine, has welcomed its first patients since yesterday. The equipment was transformed into a center dedicated to suspected coronavirus infection in order to reserve "classic" patients access to medical offices, "deserted" in recent days. Many patients no longer dare to consult their doctor for fear of being infected. “People were afraid to come. However, we must continue to treat people who have diabetes, heart failure ... It is impossible that they no longer exist, "explains Philippe Mazurier, general practitioner behind the project.

This doctor, with the help of the community of communes, was able to transform a gymnasium into a sort of medical camp, opened Thursday morning after receiving the green light from the Regional Health Agency (ARS) on Wednesday evening. The changing rooms are now consultation rooms. A dozen doctors and twenty nurses work in this center, "with a shift, each doing half a day," said the doctor, stressing that it is a consultation center and not screening.

"We are very stressed in our office"

Eight people came on Thursday and already ten on Friday morning, said the doctor. This new center should allow “to better protect oneself and to work serenely when one is hyper stressed in our office”, assures Doctor Mazurier. It is necessary to have made an appointment to access it.

According to ARS data, just over 700 cases of Covid-19 were diagnosed Thursday evening. Figures underestimated since the diagnosis is not systematic. However, the region remains relatively untouched by the coronavirus epidemic. The peak is expected in the days or weeks to come.

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