Caregivers and health personnel can now return to hospital services, after refusing to be vaccinated during the Covid-19 epidemic. Good news for some, but apprehension for others, who will face the disapproval and concern of their department heads.
This Sunday, the decree allowing the reintegration of caregivers and health personnel not vaccinated with Covid-19 was published in the Official Journal. While the news is a relief for some, many will face disapproval from their colleagues and more specifically from their department heads. This is the case of Gilles Pialoux, head of the infectious diseases department at the Tenon hospital in Paris.
For the doctor, it would be dangerous for the most fragile patients to be in contact with non-vaccinated staff. “There are still people who do not have vaccine efficacy because of their immunosuppression. I am thinking in particular of those who have kidney transplant recipients,” he says. “Explain to me how you are going to reintegrate unvaccinated people into bone marrow transplant services for example.”
“It’s a bad message”
In addition, for the infectious disease specialist, the reintegration of the non-vaccinated sends a bad message to the rest of the population. “People will hear that it’s the end clap, that there is no longer any need to vaccinate”, a political decision that Gilles Pialoux regrets and which sends “a bad message at a time when we are in total uncertainty. what’s going to happen in the fall and winter.”
He also assures that the return of vaccinated staff will not solve the problem of the lack of staff in the establishments.
Source: Europe1
I’m a journalist who covers health care news. I’ve been working in the news industry for more than 6 years. I have experience writing for print, online, and television. My work has been published by various news websites and magazines.
