two years after the disappearance of her emergency physician husband, who died of Covid-19, Claire Loupiac lives in pain

Why were caregivers not protected? This is the question that has haunted Claire Loupiac since the death of her husband, emergency physician Éric Loupiac, who died of Covid-19 on April 23, 2020 at the age of 60. According to her, he caught the virus while treating patients in the emergency room. “My husband had made several complaintsshe says, he had asked that all patients wear a mask in the hospital and that the nursing staff be equipped with FFP2 masks, we listened to him and we did not follow his complaints.

Claire Loupiac filed a complaint on August 3, 2021 against X for “manslaughter”, “non-assistance to a person in danger” and “failure to provide assistance”. Since then, the doctor’s widow lives frozen in waiting. “It torments meadmits Claire Loupiac. I wanted this complaint to be resolved as quickly as possible, for us to be able to identify the flaws, what happened, what led to this tragedy. I also wanted us to take the necessary measures, regardless of the cost, for the protection of the nursing staff.”

“It’s the great emptiness that is next to me. I try to face to continue to live.”

Claire Loupiac, widow of emergency physician Éric Loupiac

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Reached by telephone by franceinfo, the prosecutor of Lons-Le-Saunier, Lionel Pascal regrets this delay because many witnesses have already been heard, in particular the medical staff. But the magistrate has been waiting for a year for a forensic report, which would perhaps allow us to know which strain infected the doctor, but also whether he caught it in or outside the hospital, the last milestone for close the investigation.

For Claire Loupiac, these two years that have just passed have been very painful. Today, she does not enter a store without a mask and regrets that the ban on wearing a mask indoors has been suspended.

Next Saturday, April 30, a mass will be celebrated in honor of her late husband in the Cordeliers church in Lons-le-Saunier. “We will all be togethershe says, I don’t want it to be forgotten. Everything he did as a doctor, everything he wanted to do, I want it all to continue. My husband told me that we cannot offer quality care with an exhausted staff and there, I see that the nursing staff are still understaffed. It was my husband’s main fight.”