The France 5 channel is broadcasting this Tuesday evening a strong film on work and the conditions in which caregivers exercise their profession.

The documentary produced by Isabelle Wekstein and Olivier Taïeb sheds light on the daily life of the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris during the first wave of the coronavirus.

In full confinement due to the coronavirus, France 5 is, this Tuesday evening, a focus on hospitals by devoting its evening to caregivers.

The public channel offers a hard and very striking film at 8:50 p.m.

This film, entitled 

When the hospital holds its breath

, is an exceptional dive for several weeks into the daily life of the largest hospital in Europe, Pitié-Salpêtrière, in Paris, at the height of the fight against covid-19 in last spring.

"Giving a voice to people rarely interviewed"

The co-director of the documentary, Isabelle Wekstein explains that she wanted to highlight "these women and men who work in hospitals, what they are beyond their functions, what are the different professions that exist within of a machine like the hospital so that it can function ".

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"We wanted to show during the health crisis how he had held up, how he held, how we could increase the number of resuscitation beds as quickly and in such an exemplary manner. We also wanted to give voice to people who are may be rarely interviewed. There are trades which are perhaps more invisible such as technical trades, the death chamber, "she adds.

"Educational" virtues

Diffusion comes as history repeats itself.

Containment has been more or less well applied for two weeks.

For the co-director, it's even more timely and important to show what happened last spring: “There is a certain skepticism from some people about the need to confine. I think that makes sense. particular, a meaning and can be a utility ".

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"When you live outside, I think you have no idea what's going on inside hospitals: the workload, the severity of the disease, the conditions under which the caregivers and non-carers work ... It may have an educational virtue, "she warns. 

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See you tonight at 8:50 p.m. on France 5, to discover this poignant documentary.