FRANCE - HEALTH - DOM-TOM - COVID IN FRENCH GUIANA

FRANCE - HEALTH - DOM-TOM - COVID IN FRENCH GUIANA


French Guiana, Maripasoula, August 2020. On arrival at the dispensary, patients are assessed by members of the health reserve in order to define whether they are potentially affected by covid-19. They are then distributed accordingly in two places of the building. Here the nurses take the blood pressure of a patient from neighboring Suniname. Photograph by Thibaud Vaerman / Hans Lucas. Guyane Francaise, Maripasoula, aout 2020. A l arrivee au dispensaire, les patients sont oscultes par des membres de la reserve sanitaire afin de definir si ils sont potentiellement atteints par le covid-19. Ils sont ensuite repartis en consequence en deux endroits du batiment. Ici les infirmières prennent la tension d un patient originaire du Suniname voisin. Photographie de Thibaud Vaerman / Hans Lucas.