Roselyne Bachelot did not mince her words against the doctors, Wednesday during her hearing before the commission of inquiry of the National Assembly on the management of the coronavirus crisis. The former Minister of Health castigated the absence of masks and gowns in medical offices before the pandemic. She also criticized "this infantilized country", asking whether to "wait until the prefect or the director of the ARS come with a small cart to bring masks". This sequence, filmed and tweeted by LCP (The parliamentary channel), has been widely shared and commented on social networks.
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"Doctors who do not have masks, who do not build up a stock"
Roselyne Bachelot mentioned the stocks of medical materials before the start of the pandemic, and not during the crisis. "I heard a representative of a doctors' union say 'we don't have masks in our offices'. in their offices… Why do doctors no longer wear gowns? In Pasteur’s country, what is this medicine? ”she asked.
"What is this infantilized country? We have to take charge! We are waiting for the prefect to bring masks with a small cart?"
> @R_Bachelot thunders against the inaction of certain local elected officials or doctors who complain of being under-equipped. # DirectANpic.twitter.com / D5dkV78Ssn
"Why don't we have blouses? That doesn't exist any more? We are waiting for the prefect or the director of the ARS to come with a small cart to bring masks? What is this infantilized country? You have to take charge in this country, that is the lesson that must be learned. As long as we expect everything from the Lord of the Castle, we are bad, "she continued. Roselyne Bachelot had been widely criticized in 2009, during the H1N1 flu pandemic, for having ordered a large number of vaccines (94 million doses, of which only 6 were used) in the face of an epidemic that was ultimately less serious than feared.
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"Building up a stock for a month of pandemic is not complicated"
Eric Ciotti then spoke, believing that Roselyne Bachelot had been "severe with the doctors". "They found themselves in a situation of shortage where they could no longer acquire these protective products", judged the deputy LR. "I am not talking about protection at the time of the pandemic crisis, it is too late," approved the former minister.
- @ECiotti: "I found you a little harsh on the doctors. (...) There was a shortage situation"
- @R_Bachelot: "Obviously it is too late at the time of the crisis. (...) But masks are a very small investment for a medical office "# DirectAN # COVID19pic.twitter.com / e65NvN4PW5
"But building up a protective stock for a month of pandemic is not complicated, it is a very small investment at the level of a medical office. Obviously if you try to get masks at the time of the pandemic it there is none anywhere, you are right Eric Ciotti. A certain number of institutions, including doctors, must have in their medical offices a precautionary stock with masks and gowns, "he said. she concluded.