A book bringing together the contributions of 51 caregivers from the Bordeaux University Hospital on their experiences during Covid 19 has just been published.
One of the participants, a cardiologist, says that the crisis management method has made it possible to develop a certain efficiency, which she would like to see continue.
Caregivers have crystallized the hopes and concerns of the population during this unprecedented crisis.
After the urgency specific to the crisis, comes the time to look back on an unprecedented epidemic.
In this perspective,
Regards face au
Covid
has just been published, on March 17, by hospital editions.
Some 51 patients testify to what they experienced from January 2020 to December 2021, when the crisis was at its most intense.
Their words were transcribed by a writer and a photographer took their portrait.
Among the contributors, Marianne Lafitte, cardiologist and director of the Haut-Lévêque vaccination center, which opened in January 2021. “When I was asked in the spring of 2021 to participate in the collective work, I said to myself that it It was an opportunity to put words to what we had experienced,” she recalls.
Among the participants in the work, there are representatives of the various trades of the CHU, which has 15,000 hospital workers.
If the book is designed as a “Freeze frame on what we have experienced”, it is also an opportunity to structure the future, for Marianne Lafitte.
An effective “Covid” method
"We had to constantly adapt for two years," she recalls.
On vaccination, for example: there were new targets, new vaccines, in short, changes to which we had to adapt, every week.
Today, when the crisis is no longer in an acute phase, caregivers are exhausted and sometimes discouraged.
“This book comes to reactivate this collective memory of what we have been able to do and this should be structuring for the future”, estimates the cardiologist.
She describes great solidarity during the crisis.
“We all had to be hand in hand and we were able to do great things thanks to crisis management.
We had an idea that seemed very good and hop, we could rely on adjacent services to quickly realize it,” argues Marianne Lafitte.
It regrets that this operation did not last and that the imperatives of profitability took over.
"We have to be able to treat," she insists, stressing that the crisis is not completely over.
Applauded and decried
The caregivers received applause at 8 p.m., before the first two confinements “when people were afraid”, analyzes the cardiologist.
Afterwards they were also the target of uncertainties, complaints and distrust.
“This was seen collectively at the population level, she points out.
But we also see it in the hospital with alternations between recognition and anxiety in patients who are hospitalized and are not well.
These are normal reactions.
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Faced with this new virus, people had different reactions.
“Either we are very scared and flabbergasted, or we take action very quickly, explains Marianne Lafitte.
Both are legitimate, each does what he can to protect himself.
This book brings together people who wanted to run but together and who want to continue to do so”.
The book is on sale for €25.
For each purchase, 2 euros are donated to the patronage of the Bordeaux University Hospital.
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