After more than a month of coma, Marion Bertomeu’s dad was able to reopen his eyes last Wednesday, not in Nice, where he was urgently hospitalized on February 28, severely affected by covid-19, but at the Clermont-Tonnerre de Brest military instruction hospital (HIA). Several patients from the south of France have been transferred to intensive care units in Brest in recent weeks. Among them, on March 3, the father of Marion Bertomeu, she was this weekend at his bedside.
“The transfer, a second chance”
“There is better, he remains in intensive care, but he has come out of a coma”, testifies Marion, arrived Friday evening in Brest, to visit her father, as she can do regularly since Sunday March 21. “In Nice, the day I had to have the doctors’ agreement to see him in intensive care, he was transferred to Brest, I did not see him before he left, and it was very hard, without knowing when I was going to be able to see him again, ”assures Marion, who however did not hesitate to agree to the transfer.
“The families of transferable patients need to understand that this is a second chance that we offer to their loved one. My father arrived in a very welcoming, wonderful, professional, very kind, attentive team. We were very quickly reassured and very happy that he was there, rather than in Nice, where he might not have had the same chances. The situation is catastrophic, not at the level of the caregivers, there is also a top team at the Pasteur hospital in Nice, but they are completely overwhelmed! “. By the way, Marion Bertomeu also wants to make families aware of the help they can benefit from to visit their transferred loved one. “The health insurance funds grant aid to families to visit it: one trip per week of hospitalization and overnight stays, it is enough to live in the same department as your loved one”.
Already € 1,500 collected in one week
With her mother and her two sisters, Marion decided to launch a pot on the platform Leetchi to “come to the aid of the nursing staff of the intensive care unit of the Clermont-Tonnerre hospital in Brest”.
“We are very happy with the result, we reach € 1,500 in donations in the space of a week. We want to bring a message of solidarity with the nursing staff. They work in difficult conditions in protective clothing in rooms where it is very hot. They are a great support for the patients, both for the care and to boost their morale and boost them ”.
An approach highly appreciated by the management and staff of the HIA: “very sensitive to this very generous gesture. The HIA will study how to best benefit the staff that the donor has wished to thank with this donation ”.
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