“It’s time to go, they need us now, we have to go”, says David Cherpitel, nursing assistant at the ARCUMEL pole (Anesthesia, Surgical Resuscitation, Emergencies, Forensic Medicine) at Dijon University Hospital (Côte-d’Or). 300 volunteer caregivers left this Friday bring reinforcements in Martinique and Guadeloupe. David Cherpitel and two other Dijon nursing assistants will be in Guadeloupe for two weeks, without yet knowing in which establishment he will be assigned.
“For us it was obvious, we lived, and we still live, the Covid crisis for a year and a half. It was very complicated at the time of the first wave in Dijon. We had to increase the number of resuscitation beds. I think that today this skill, this knowledge that we have been able to have, we must be able to share it with our colleagues from overseas “, he explains. According to him, “It was really obvious that we had to go and help them. For the moment in Dijon, things are still calm at the level of the Covid. _It’s time to go_, before maybe it can reignite with a fourth wave “.
The desire to “move on”
David Cherpitel points out that caregivers want to “to move on”, after the Covid. “All the caregivers are tired. We have a lot of absenteeism in all the departments.” He adds : “Overseas colleagues must be like us after the first wave, exhausted, tired. They need to take rest, to take a step back. If we can be there just to help them with simple gestures and be present. , it can already be a lot “. Three of his colleagues are on site in Martinique: “I don’t have a lot of contacts, but I know the situation is extremely complicated. It is worse than what we experienced in Dijon”, concludes the caregiver.
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