Senator (Les Républicains) Bruno Retailleau wants to table a bill to guarantee family visiting rights to patients in hospital and in nursing homes. This is a very strong demand from relatives of the dead from Covid-19.

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Relatives of covid-19 victims demand visiting rights for patients

In France, since the first confinement, tens of thousands of residents in nursing homes or hospitals have lived their last days in solitude. Until March 3, family visits were prohibited there. Associations, such as the collective Holding your hand, are campaigning for the establishment of visiting rights in these establishments. “We were told ‘we will all be confined on March 17, 2020 to preserve our elders’, explains Stéphanie Bataille, actress and founder of the collective. But we do not protect them, they are cloistered, and we cannot visit them. so they die of grief and let go. “

“A real home”

On the side of professionals in the medico-social sector, it is essential that residents in EHPAD find a more normal daily life. For Eric Fregona, deputy director of the Association of Directors in the Service of the Elderly (AD-PA), “establishments for the elderly are often too considered as health environments when they should normally be real homes, real homes. -soi. What is needed is to promote the voice of the elderly and to really listen to them. ”

Since the start of the epidemic, more than 26,000 residents in nursing homes and medico-social establishments have died of covid-19.

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