Colmar Mosque Offers Space to Local Hospitals Amid COVID-19 Surge

"Given the number of deaths and people infected in France at the moment, the Grand Mosque of Colmar is offering its help to the hospitals to decongest them," says Abderrahmane Nafaa, president of the managing association to DNA.

To this end, it is making available its two large multipurpose and convivial halls, which are functional and can accommodate a total of around 200 people. "The hospital can use them as it sees fit: as a rest room, to store supplies... If it needs volunteers, volunteers can help, of course provided they are well protected, also to preserve the others," specifies the president of the El Amal mosque. This place of worship has been closed since March 6 to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

For the past fifteen days, the Louis Pasteur hospital in Colmar has been in a delicate situation. The hospital receives about ten patients in distress at the emergency room every day. This means that there are no more beds available in the intensive care unit.