Doctors, nurses, nurses, road transporters, supermarket cashiers: one year after the first wave of the Covid, France Bleu honors those who have been on the front line.
While we all found ourselves confined overnight at home, a good number of professionals had to continue to go to their work to provide essential services.Among them, Didier Honnart, coordinating doctor of the emergency department of Dijon University Hospital. The 65-year-old doctor has spent his entire career in the hospital but this crisis remains for him an experience as strong as it is unprecedented.
“I had gone on vacation in the mountains. We had just arrived, on the first day of vacation I turned on the TV and the Prime Minister announced confinement. There we put our barely unpacked things away and left. for Dijon. I’m going back to business and we have to manage a crisis that frightened us, it must be said, because it is a disease that we did not know. “
Didier Honnart is in a way “the captain” of Emergency, it is he who directs patients according to the seriousness of their case. On his return, the hospital takes on a new face “We had to close the emergency room door and set up an entrance hall and separate the ‘Covid and’ non-Covid ‘patients. We used the ambulance entrance door to set up this sorting with tents at the entrance to this airlock. It was quite astonishing “ he smiles.
“We sleep very badly, we wonder if we will get there”
This former anesthesiologist, head of department, has spent his entire career in the hospital. The job firmly anchored, he does not want to retire and continues to chain the night guards “I’m lucky enough to get little sleep, 4 hours are enough for me to be able to resume my shift afterwards” he declares “But there I slept badly because I was worried. We wonder if we’ll get there. lacked caregivers to deal with the situation. Fortunately my long career allows me to get to know people. So I called on young doctors who had just graduated and who could not do an integration internship in practices since everything was closed. We also called in recently retired doctors who came to help us. ”
– Olivier Estran
The situation remains tense until the beginning of the summer and Didier Honnart is going through this crisis with pride : “We have never refused a patient in intensive care. I don’t imagine that could happen one day. We will do ephemeral sheave services, we will do a lot of things, but it is true that it can still become very difficult. ”
On January 1, Didier Honnart receives the Legion of Honor, and this distinction he shares with his entire team. “I would continue until 68 years old, slowing the pace a bit because I have accumulated a considerable number of RTT not taken, but I don’t want to stop working now” he confides before returning to take a 24-hour shift.
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