Wife of Covid's dead doctor attacks hospital that employed him

• Eric Loupiac, 60, is the tenth doctor to die from Covid-19. He practiced at the hospital of Lons-le-Saunier.
• According to his wife, he was contaminated in the hospital because he lacked protective equipment.
• The management of the hospital defends, for its part, any breach of its obligations.

Eric Loupiac was a fervent defender of the public hospital. It is undoubtedly for this reason that his death, on April 23, aroused so many emotions. This is also why his wife, Claire, has decided to file a complaint for "endangering the lives of others". "I do this to give him back his honor," she said at 20 Minutes this Tuesday, just before making an appointment with her lawyer to finalize the procedure. This is what he would have liked… ”

We should talk to the wife of emergency doctor Éric Loupiac (to name but one) who lost her husband, sacrificed, mown by the Covid-19 due to the absence of FFP2 masks ...
These masks could have been available so soon! 😥 # OnOublieraPas

Her 60-year-old husband died of coronavirus on April 23. He is the tenth caregiver to have succumbed to Covid-19. Eric Loupiac worked as a doctor at the hospital in Lons-le-Saunier (Jura). And, according to Claire, it is precisely because he was not sufficiently protected that he died today. "My complaint is aimed primarily at the hospital and the Regional Health Agency," she says. Secondly, it will be brought against Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health and Agnès Buzyn [his predecessor]. "

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He had decided to confine himself from February 26

According to her, her husband had to be on call at the hospital without adequate protections. And it was in this context that he contracted the disease. "I remind you that at the beginning, we were told that it was useless to wear a mask," she continues. He was rightly convinced of the contrary. We didn't want to give it to him. And I have written proof of that! Mistakes have been made. And he died… ”

Seeing the development of the situation in China and then in Italy, Eric Loupiac had decided to confine himself to his home on February 26, three weeks before the announcement of Emmanuel Macron. “He only came out of our house to go to work. He felt like he was preaching in the desert, says Claire. When you see where it took him ... "

"I will not let anyone spit on his grave"

Contacted by several media, the hospital management denied, however, that it had not provided equipment to its caregivers. "The mobilization from February of the purchasing and logistics teams made it possible to supply equipment (masks, gloves, gel, etc.) without interruption to all of the services, in particular to the emergency department, and this to this day," indicates thus Guillaume Ducolomb, director of the hospital center, at France Info.

What makes Patrick Pelloux angry. President of the association of emergency physicians, he was a close friend of Eric Loupiac. "I hear this little music going up ... We suggest that Eric did not want to protect himself. I won't let anyone say that. I won't let anyone spit on his grave, he said at 20 minutes . He was not a procedural person. If he deplored any shortcomings, it is because there were shortcomings. It will no doubt be up to the courts to decide. Claire Loupiac ensures that the complaint for "endangering the life of others" will be filed in the coming days.

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