French health workers attend a protest in front of the CHU hospital in Nantes as part of a nationwide day of actions to urge the French government to improve wages and invest in public hospitals, in the wake of the the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis in France June 16, 2020. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe
PARIS (Reuters) - At the peak of the COVID-19 crisis in France, 29-year-old nurse Justine Debrie volunteered to work in a hospital coronavirus unit. Now she wants to know how the French state is going to recognise her sacrifice.
"I don't know if the public really understood us," she said in her studio apartment in Paris, the day after completing a 12-hour shift in the Robert Debre children's hospital.
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