For Dr Luc Duquesnel, general practitioner in Mayenne and president of the “general practitioners” branch of the CSMF (Confederation of French Medical Unions), the second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic is not accompanied by sufficient preventive measures. preventing a third wave. He explains why Doctor.
– Why Doctor: While we are experiencing a second wave and a new confinement, you denounce the lack of pedagogy. Do the measures taken by the government not seem sufficient to you?
Dr. Luc Duquesnel : We gargle because we are the country where we do the most tests. I want to say “so what? “. We’re going to get tested like we’re going to buy your wand and that’s not going to prevent some who are asymptomatic and who risk being negative with the new antigenic tests from contaminating grandpa and grandma!
We missed the deconfinement of the first wave to find ourselves in today’s situation: we did not teach people to live with the virus. Everyone is experiencing this crisis, and even more since the reconfinement, as a period of constraint, and we are only waiting for one thing, it is that we open the doors of the stable to be able to jump outside!
Rather than insisting on negative measures, the challenge today should be to prepare for deconfinement and not to miss it like last time. As we left, we will go straight to a third wave!
– But then, what should be done to avoid this third wave?
Dr. LD : We should be more educational about hygiene and prevention, have positive messages, take incentive measures on how we learn to live with Covid. But we are not in a country where prevention has an important place in our health system. And we pay a high price for that.
– These preventive measures, who should remind them of their importance?
Dr. LD : Who are the actors of prevention? Already liberal health professionals, doctors, pharmacists, nurses and all actors in the field. The government recalled their central role in this health crisis. Put we are going to do tests while basic hygiene measures are not taken! Health professionals are very listened to by the French. We are very bad on pedagogy by not relying enough on them. And then it is also necessary to rely on local authorities which have initiatives to take: it would be necessary to set up hygiene agents where there is passage, crowds, this would also make it possible to create jobs !
At home, in Mayenne, things are done: for example, here, the mayor has set up the market. People line up, respect the distance but in the end it’s very positive because we are still going to do our shopping, and there are agents who remind us of the measures to be respected. This is positive prevention when we are too often in negative prevention, prohibitions, sanctions… We won’t get out of it like that! If we work on preventive measures, there will be no third wave and no third confinement!
– With the end of the year celebrations approaching, how can we hope to experience them without too many constraints and without risking a resumption of contamination?
Dr. LD : Just take precautions if you have people at home: simple measures, disinfect door handles, do not get too close to the elderly, maybe actually test yourself if you think you can be contaminating… Instead, we close nursing homes so that we don’t go to see our elders!
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