15 doctors from the French part of the island denounce the closure of the border with Sint Maarten. They consider that this decision "has nothing to do with useful medical measures in the current state of the pandemic".
“The state compares us a map of the positive PCR numbers to a previous map of hospital patients. The prefecture announces to us the contaminated prefect in Saint Martin, when the incubation periods tell us it is contaminated in Guadeloupe. The ARS announces on RFO the return of the epidemic due to the Americans 4 days before the first plane to Juliana.
In the name of these 3 observations, we were sold the closure of the border, for health reasons, in order to reduce the mixing of populations. Currently positive cases are mostly healthy carriers, most of them non-contagious. Think of them as "vaccinated", not as dangers.
Elderly and frail patients still need to be protected, but that has nothing to do with closing the border. The sub-prefecture is managing COVID without speaking to any of the doctors in Saint Martin. The number of positive biological tests is the only argument opposed to us, and it is not scientific.
Rather, it is likely that the border is closed for some obvious political reason.
Our patients have run out of money, not all of them have enough to eat. Those who live on the Dutch side cannot easily be treated. The economy on both sides of the island is in danger of decline. Now children are no longer allowed to go to school.
Even though nothing medically justifies what has not been done anywhere else in mainland France. If we, the island's doctors, do not have the power to stop the closing of the borders, we have a duty to warn the population that this has nothing to do with useful medical measures in the current state of the pandemic.
Madam, please cease what is irrelevant, reopen the borders, and let Saint Martin live and breathe.
Dr Marc THIBAUT; Dr Joel GOMEZ; Dr Pierre Yves Merlet; Dr Jean Marie GALEOTTI; Dr Roland DEMAMBEKE; Dr Valérie SCHREIBER; Dr Benjamin MEKKI; Dr Julien PICHON; Dr Yves JOURNO; Dr Bernard VASSEL; Dr Blaise BARTOLI; Dr Jean François BARTOLI; Dr Patrice FILIPIGH; Dr Christophe CHELLE; Dr Bertrand LACOTTE »
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