TESTIMONY
Like him, they are more than 19,000 people cured of the coronavirus, when at least 10,328 patients of hospitals and residents of Ehpad have died so far. Georges Betti, 57, is the first Corsican patient to recover from Covid-19. Today in a rehabilitation center, he tells Wednesday morning on Europe 1 his two weeks of artificial coma, and the fear of dying.
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It all started a few weeks ago, when Georges Betti received a call from his only brother, who told him that their father arrived in the emergency room. The latter has been "tested several times negatively" with coronavirus. "For us, they hospitalized him for his age, 89 years. With my brother, we followed each other, morning and afternoon. In fact, my father had coronavirus."
"I couldn't go to my father's death"
The suspicion of Covid-19 then relates to Georges Betti and his brother: "They tested it four times, and it was four times negative", he tells the microphone of Matthieu Belliard. And then this news: "There was the death of my father. I had over 40 of fever, I could not go to my father's funeral, it was my brother who took care of it. "
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In turn, Georges Betti is sick. "Two days later, my doctor told me that we should do a lung scan. We had the scan, the lungs were white, I didn't have long. He decided to call the emergency room, who brought me to resuscitation right away. A doctor started talking to me: "Either you are being blocked or you are risking your life. I give you fifteen minutes, you prepare your loved ones." I phoned my wife, my son, my brother, "he rewinds, his voice knotted.
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For the fifties, the intervention is heavy: "They engulfed me and I stayed a fortnight in a coma. I was in the vapes, I saw myself dying ... After a while, I am suddenly returned. It was Ajaccio’s resuscitation service that managed to get me out of trouble. Otherwise, I think I would be dead, "he said today from a rehabilitation center at the Isle of Beauty, where he is continuing his recovery.