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The Ehpad are caught in the crossfire. On the one hand, a request for relaxation on the part of the families of the residents, and on the other, the strict rules of the regional health agency to fight against the coronavirus. For the owners of these establishments, the equation can be difficult to solve. This is shown by, for Europe 1, an Ehpad boss wishing to remain anonymous. "It is true that this puts us in difficulty and I would say all the more the staff who also live under this pressure, both families and the authorities," he said.
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"Paradoxical injunctions of the ARS"
The problem according to this director of Ehpad is the contradictory expectations. "Today we are in the midst of families who would really like a reduction, a relaxation of the deconfinement and in the same direction unfortunately we have paradoxical injunctions of the ARS which indicates to us that we must go towards a deconfinement but within the framework strict compliance with the proposed protocols and they are draconian, "he laments.
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Strict sanitary measures which sometimes put the personnel in difficulty because "it is difficult for us to be able to respect in the strict sense all of these protocols, we are asked, once again, the impossible", according to this director. After several months of health crisis, "it's a little bit the drop of water that overflows the vase, we do not feel supported in fact. And what we regret, ultimately, is that has the feeling that our authorities, and therefore the regional health agency, are opening the umbrella and placing the responsibilities on us. " What create some discomfort: "it's very unfortunate for us, we suffer."