Continue to treat other pathologies

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Monitoring of chronic pathologies is essential CC-BY-SA 3.0

By: Caroline Paré Follow

The Covid-19 epidemic has disrupted medical activity in the past two months in France, giving top priority to the management of coronavirus cases.

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If the tension remains extreme in the intensive care units, infectious diseases and in the French hospital in general, we are now worried about a second health crisis: that which would affect other patients. Monitoring of chronic pathologies is essential, and despite the context of extreme fatigue of caregivers, the resumption of conventional interventions and consultations is now just as necessary.

  • Dr Anne Léger , neurologist at the Cerebro-Vascular Unit at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris
  • Dr Yvon Le Flohic , general practitioner in Ploufragan and representative of the medical collective in the Cotes d''Armor
  • Pr Olivier Bastien , director of organ and tissue removal and transplant at the Biomedicine Agency

At the end of the program, we take stock of the situation of a pediatric hospital based in Koutiala in Mali. We are talking about it with Mfoura Sassou MADI , Head of Mission for MSF in Mali .

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