A hundred doctors are asking the government to make vaccination against Covid-19 compulsory for caregivers in hospitals and nursing homes “before the beginning of September”, in a column published on the website of Sunday newspaper.
Consultation under pressure: while Prime Minister Jean Castex is due to receive from Monday the leaders of Parliament and local elected officials to address, among other things, the question of the obligation to vaccinate caregivers, several doctors are putting their weight in the balance.
And not the least. Among the 96 signatories of the text, we find several department heads of the Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP) revealed by the health crisis, such as infectious diseases specialists Karine Lacombe and Gilles Pialoux, resuscitator Bruno Mégarbane and diabetologist Anne Gervais, but also the former director of Public Health France François Bourdillon, or the former president of the deans of medical schools Jean Sibilia.
“Avoid a fourth wave”
These practitioners are calling on the government “to immediately take the decision to require vaccination” for any employee of an nursing home or a hospital “(s’) exposing or exposing the people for whom it is responsible to risks of contamination” at Covid-19. In order to “avoid a fourth wave”, they ask it “to implement the necessary measures so that the application of this decision is effective before the beginning of September”.
In recent days, the rapid progress of the Delta variant has prompted the executive to relaunch this debate, which was already raised in March. Vaccination rates have since increased, but still remain insufficient: 57% in nursing homes, 64% in hospitals according to the French Hospital Federation (FHF).
80% target
Health Minister Olivier Véran set a target of 80% “by September” for them on Tuesday, failing which the Covid would be added to the legal list of compulsory vaccines for caregivers – diphtheria, tetanus, polio, Hepatitis B.
But three days later, he said he was in favor of a tighter timetable: “If there is a law, I want it to be examined and adopted by Parliament as soon as possible, why not as early as the month of July”.
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