Pierre Gilet, 64, a General Practitioner, Dannemarie, France – passed away on 8 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Gilet was 64 years old.
"In general, kids cry at the doctor. At Doctor's home, mine only laughed. He was our country doctor. I almost never went to the pediatrician thanks to him, ”recalls his hairdresser and patient, Dominique. Pierre Gilet, hospitalized on March 22 in Mulhouse, died on April 8. He had proudly shown his trombine to Dominique during their last meeting.
The evening of the announcement of the national confinement, the mayor Paul Mumbach had called upon him to recognize a death in the commune. “An old man had just thrown himself into the canal after learning that he was infected. When we got there, he yelled at me and the rescue because we weren't wearing masks, remembers the elected official. Obviously, he was wearing one. He told us that he saw ten positive cases a day in his office. ” The municipality will now go in search of a new practitioner. A mission that promises to be perilous in this medical desert, classified red zone by the ARS.
Source: Le Parisien