The liberal nurses of the SOS collective caregivers in danger want to alert public opinion and the government about their lack of protection against the coronavirus. - David Ferriol

  • The movement "A poil contre le Covid-19" started on a personal initiative, on Saturday, by a liberal nurse from Perpignan, angry at the lack of protection allocated to her profession.
  • Very quickly, several hundred liberal nurses and liberal nurses joined the group and agreed to photograph themselves naked to denounce their working conditions.

They pose naked to proclaim their fed up. “To explain that we are naked in the face of the coronavirus when we go to see our patients. We don't have the equipment. We are in great difficulty, ”explains Alexandra Lopez. "We feel alone and helpless in this war that we have to face without a weapon."

This liberal nurse based in Perpignan, currently on sick leave, launched a group on Saturday, SOS caregivers in danger. First on the WhatsApp application, then in front of the very large number of returns, quickly on Facebook. “I was very surprised by the enormous scale it took. I did not expect at all to have such an echo. In a few days, around 300 nurses from all over France joined the group. This is proof that we are all helpless in the face of this health crisis ”.

"We are promised masks, we are very far from the mark"

All and all decided to pose naked with only protection the same message in A4 format: "#apoilcontrele # covid-19 #infirmiere". “We are allowed to use expired masks, knowing that we must change masks (assuming they are not expired) every four hours. We are supposed to each have 18 in staffing per week, which is far from being the case ”, resumes Alexandra Lopez.

“I went to a dozen pharmacies in Antibes a fortnight ago to get 18 surgical masks a week. I managed to obtain six other masks, FFP2 those, by the town hall of Antibes. We are very far from the mark, ”explains Elodie Ferreol, who joined the movement quickly. It was her husband, David, a professional photographer, who was responsible for retouching the photos sent by the liberal nurses and creating the poster.

ARS Occitanie has not yet responded to our requests, any more than the order of nurses from Aude, Pyrénées-Orientales and Hérault.

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  • Languedoc-Roussillon
  • Montpellier
  • Nice
  • Covid 19
  • Coronavirus
  • Nurse
  • Society
  • Perpignan