Many French people are deprived of their farewells when their loved one is seriously ill with the coronavirus.

Some hospitals in fact prevent families from entering the Covid units.

A suffering which is added to that of the loss and which is denounced by families. 

It is a strong testimony, proof of immense suffering.

On Tuesday on our antenna, actress Stéphanie Bataille told how the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital forbade her to say goodbye to her father, who died of the coronavirus at the beginning of January.

In this interview conducted by Patrick Cohen, she denounced "a policy of enarque" and recounted her fight for "humanity to return to the center of our society".

Like Etienne Draber's daughter, Ayad lost her father to the coronavirus at the very start of the epidemic without being able to say goodbye to him.

Ten months later he still has not been able to grieve.

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"The worst thing is not being able to see him, not asking for forgiveness, not going with him. We don't know if he died in his sleep, if he suffered ...", he says. he at the microphone of Europe 1. "Why were we refused to see him behind a window or even from a distance?" he asks.

"Death is inevitable, but there are conditions! We even accompany animals! We are human beings, we have feelings."

So Ayad "resents the hospital for refusing to say goodbye, but also the government." This must not happen to others, let people see their patient.

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Suffering for families

But Ayad or Stéphanie Bataille are not the only ones to have been deprived of these last moments.

It is "even something extremely frequent", indicates at the microphone of Europe 1 Michel Parigot, president of the association coronavictimes.

"It's really something that is very badly experienced [by families]", especially since this "absence of information" suggests "that the person is completely abandoned, that he is suffering. It is a dimension. which very often adds to [the pain], which further complicates matters and makes the situation more difficult to live with and acceptable to the family. "

We try to treat people, but we take less care of the family and the relationship they have with the hospitalized person, he says.

"And as soon as the hospital is in tension, it gets worse."