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The barge is located between Gare de Lyon and Gare d’Austerlitz. Every day, it welcomes around forty patients referred by other healthcare structures located in the first 4 arrondissements of Paris. SEBASTIEN SORIANO / Le Figaro
REPORTAGE – This Parisian day hospital floating on the Seine welcomes around forty patients treated for serious pathologies every day.
No white coats, long sad corridors or hurried nurses pushing carts overflowing with pills of all colors. Forget everything you thought you knew about the mental hospital, you’re on Adamant, a word that means “ diamond » in old French. This day center attached to the hospitals of Saint-Maurice, in Val-De-Marne, has the particularity of being located on a beautiful two-story barge, clad in wood, peacefully placed on the Seine. But this boat is not intended to sail. Tailor-made, since 2010 it has remained securely moored to the quay located opposite the Gare d’Austerlitz. Its passengers are psychiatric patients residing in the first four arrondissements of Paris. Around 40 patients go there every day, to drink coffee, participate in one of the many therapeutic activities offered or simply benefit from a little human warmth in a world that is not always kind to them. “ Of the 4000 patients…
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