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Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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Since their daughters left the family home in Santeuil, Nathalie and her husband have several rooms that have been made available to make over-blouses and store them before they are collected for distribution to the health workers. Like them throughout the Val d'Oise, hundreds of volunteers decided to get involved during this health crisis.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
Jan Schmidt-Whitley/Le Pictorium
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The habits of the medical staff at the hospital du Parc in Taverny in the Val d'Oise had to adapt to the opening of the post-Covid-19 unit for patients discharged from the intensive care units. New protective equipment that was not previously used quickly became necessary, such as protective visors. These visors are manufactured and distributed by private individuals.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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While the Covid-19 crisis was taking hold, the nurses of the René-Dubos hospital centre in Pontoise resorted to donations from volunteers to be able to work in good conditions. The "Scrubs for the Hospital" collective, which was set up from the start, had the mission of compensating for possible delays in supplies and mobilized hundreds of people around its project.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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Thanks to the impetus of "Scrubs for the Hospital", the Access It factory in Saint-Ouen l'Aumône began to produce more than 8,000 over-scrubs a day for free distribution. The factory now runs 16 hours a day and produces kits of 10 to 12 gowns per minute. Only two people are needed to run the machines.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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Benoit is 40 years old and has been an employee of the Access It plant since January 2020. As soon as he heard about his boss's initiative, he volunteered to oversee the manufacture of over-scrubs. Every morning he walks 10km to his workplace and hopes that his action will help bring things back to normal. The fabric is bought in France or comes from Europe. The short circuit is put forward.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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Clément de Souza is the owner of the factory and one of the coordinators of the "Scrubs for the Hospital" collective. With entrepreneurial friends in the Val d'Oise region, he has set up a network for the manufacture and distribution of over-scrubs. From the very beginning of the crisis he was revolted by the fact that the nursing staff was so dependent on companies producing disposable material on the other side of the world.
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Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
Jan Schmidt-Whitley/Le Pictorium
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Several times a week, volunteers come to Clement de Souza's factory to collect the kits of 10 or 12 folded scrubs, packed and delivered with thread and elastics. These kits are then distributed before the boxes are collected by distributors to be delivered to the 500 volunteer seamstresses who have joined the movement, most often via word of mouth and social networks.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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Nathalie folds an over-scrub after she finishes sewing it. An accountant for 34 years, she is also a member of a sewing club in her village of Santeuil in the Val d'Oise. As a volunteer in a large number of associations, it seemed natural for her to volunteer. She spends 3 mornings a week sewing scrubs for medical personnel.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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Jacqueline aka Line, has been a professional seamstress for 46 years. Today, she devotes 10 to 12 hours a day to making over-scrubs and masks in her workshop in Chaumont en Vexin. She makes 100 gowns a day for the "Scrubs for the Hospital" collective and also gives advice to the other seamstresses of the collective. A group of volunteers has just been created in her commune.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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For 43 years, Evelyne, a friend of Jacqueline's was secretary of the mayor of Chaumont en Vexin. Now retired, she helps her friend. In Jacqueline's workshop, she prepares the fabric for Jacqueline, and then collects the finished scrubs to fold them. Both friends feel guilty when they are not working, so they are on deck as much as possible.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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Nathalie is now very active on the WhatsApp messaging system and regularly consults the different solidarity groups she belongs to. A large part of the exchanges of the "Scrubs for the Hospital" collective is done via this tool, which was previously used exclusively to exchange with her grandchildren. She has also produced a tutorial on Youtube to help new volunteers.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
Jan Schmidt-Whitley/Le Pictorium
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Not far from the centre of Taverny, an entrepreneur has made part of his premises available for the department's citizen and solidarity initiatives. Here are stored the Scrubs of the collective "Scrubs for the Hospital" as well as visors printed by "makers" from all over the Val d'Oise. On the left, Lucie Micolli, deputy mayor of Taverny coordinates these solidarity actions, she talks with Jacqueline and Nathalie, two seamstresses. On the right, Matthieu Reumaux, one of the entrepreneurs behind the collective "Scrubs for the Hospital" in conversation with a delivery girl.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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Two to three times a week, the volunteers distribute the visors to health care staff who request them. Today for the first time a "drive" was set up in the car park of a company just a stone's throw from Charles de Gaulle airport. Normally, volunteers drive to their area to distribute the visors at home, today people come to collect their visors themselves between appointments.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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The visors are distributed as required to the various distributors who each work in their own sector. These distributors are responsible for collecting them themselves before distributing them. Adrien Kepeklian, one of the leaders of the "makers" initiative, will spend a morning waiting for people in the car park of the company where he works. He will continue his working day once the distribution is over.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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Adrien, 35 years old, organises on the company's site where he works a distribution of visors. Logistics manager in a company in the aeronautics sector, he divides his days between his work and his voluntary activity. He also makes his 3D printers available for the production of visors. In the car, Madvi, a liberal nurse from Gonnesse, came to get the visors for four nursing colleagues and two doctors.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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Fanta is a liberal nurse in the city of Sarcelles. She and her colleagues lack protective equipment, even standard. She came for her and her three colleagues. She feels that these visors are essential for protection.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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Pascal is a 73-year-old general practitioner in Arnouville. They see a lot of Covid-19 victims in his office.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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Adrien Kepeklian regularly visits health centres and hospitals to hand-deliver the visors manufactured by the network of "makers" that he leads and which counts about 80 volunteers. These visors have been validated by the hospitals, which have included them in the list of protective equipment worn by healthcare personnel in contact with Covid-19 patients.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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Philippe's company, in addition to serving as a logistics centre for the distribution of visors and scrubs, also manufactures visors with a 3D printer. The collective animated by Adrien provides him with the material, and makes his equipment available to him and dozens of other volunteers.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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Four 3D printers run all day long in Guillaume Raineri's small studio not far from Pontoise. As soon as he heard about the initiative, the 38-year-old heating engineer immediately put his printers and time at his disposal to make visors. He is just disappointed that he can't run his equipment 24/7, but the noise and fumes would disturb him in his sleep.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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The "makers" share plans and advice with each other. Several models are printed, tested and following the return of the nursing staff, modifications can be made very quickly. Adrien regularly calls for donations of materials to be able to supply the "makers" who all work on a voluntary basis.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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Guillaume inspects one last time his production before Adrien recovers the 100 visors thus manufactured in just a few days in his studio. The hardest part is still finding the material needed to make these visors, and the whole initiative relies on donations of material from individuals or companies.
Covid-19: The volonteers of the Val d'Oise region
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Many health centres and hospitals in the region, such as the one in Pontoise, are now regularly supplied by these voluntary networks of citizens. These solidarity networks have been set up at the local level and are run by volunteers who act as a link between institutions and citizens.
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Two nurses from the Hôpital du Parc in Taverny work in the post-Covid-19 unit of their establishment. They greatly appreciate being able to wear these protective visors as a complement to the rest of their equipment. These visors are washed after each use according to a strict protocol and then safely reused.