Medical and psychological support during the COVID-19 pandemic in Overseas France

France has developed medical and psychological expertise and has equipped all the 15 (french medical service) centres with Medical and Psychological Emergency Units (CUMPs) composed of medical and paramedical teams of referral psychiatrists, psychologists and nurses, reinforced by volunteers (mental health professionals, trained in this discipline). The attacks endured by France heavily called on the services of the teams in mainland France, particularly in Paris in 2015 and Nice in 2016, with reinforcements between teams in mainland France. The COVID-19 pandemic led to the dispatching of teams outside mainland France to overseas territories hard hit by the pandemic, to the point of creating a real health disaster. These situations have been presented to European partners in the framework of the NO-FEAR project. The article relates the human and ethical experience of these teams as well as their preparation.