- France 3 Hauts-de-France is broadcasting this Monday a documentary called Covid-19: 23 days in the heart of a hospital, shot in Belgium .
- The director shared 23 days and 23 nights of effort to fight head-on against the coronavirus epidemic that is affecting both Belgium and France.
"We wake up at night and then we look for our mask," says a nurse, admitting to sleeping badly. "At some point, we will have to choose," admits another before the saturation of its service. "We don't say goodbye correctly", laments a third after letting go of a deceased person, wrapped in a sheet, without a mortuary toilet, with a room neighbor next to it.
All these poignant testimonies follow one another in Covid-19: 23 days in the heart of a hospital , a documentary by Olivier Evrard, carried by the resonant voice of Bernard Yerlès and broadcast this Monday evening, at 11.10 p.m., by France 3 Hauts -of France. The replay available for 30 days is already visible on the website.
Time trials
In a hospital center in La Louvière, between Brussels and Mons, the director shared 23 days and 23 nights of effort, from March 21 to April 13, to fight head-on against the Covid-19 epidemic which strikes both Belgium and France. Same shortage of protective equipment, same questions about this wave that caregivers hope to see rise as low as possible.
The intensity of this document is based on a camera that blends in with what the commentary calls "the team of the 8th", because it is located on the 8th floor. We discover the progressive organization of the hospital to adapt the protocols to this new disease.
We race against the clock when a patient in respiratory distress enters the emergency room. This one lands in the service of "comfort care" whereas in normal times, it should have been transferred to intensive care. Daily life is turned upside down.
" I do not cry. It's an allergy ”
But the camera also collects confidences, doubts, fears. A doctor and a nurse died due to the coronavirus. " You are scared ? Asked a caregiver to his colleague. Each image transpires emotion. An old man, bedridden, breaks down in tears after having exchanged with his son. A caregiver found the solution by wrapping a phone in a plastic folder to prevent contagion.
A mother, a survivor of the coronavirus, comes to see her daughter, a nurse in this hospital where she was treated. "I'm not crying," she said. It's an allergy. ” " Of course. It was also the reason for your entry to the emergency room, ”quips the girl.
The La Louvière hospital center shows this confrontation with death to which men and women are regularly subjected. A fight that our society usually tries to forget and hide.
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