the mandatory booster dose for caregivers from this Sunday

The government continues to increase pressure to encourage vaccination. From this Sunday, all French caregivers in mainland France are required to have received a booster dose in order to have a complete vaccination schedule.

“It’s very heavy”

They won’t all be ready. Some could not solve this administrative headache, like Joanny Allombert, the director of the Avranches-Granville hospital center. He has 2,800 agent certificates to collect and, even starting on January 12, the deadline comes a little early. “The difficulty is to mobilize all this staff on these issues, even though our energy goes mainly to the performance of services”, he explains at the microphone of Europe 1. “Our commitment is there today, so we obviously let’s do what must be done in this regard, but it is indeed very cumbersome”, he concedes.

Next deadline February 15

Professionals who have not proven their vaccination status will not be able to come to work. The measurement is simple: it is the suspension. “A person who does not have a vaccination status no longer has the possibility of working and who is in treatment. She no longer contributes to retirement, she no longer has a grade advancement. Behind the suspension measure , it is a set of legal consequences which can be difficult for the career of an agent”, deplores on Europe 1 Jean-Rémi Richard, director general of the hospitals of the country of Mont-Blanc.

The checks are advancing at a forced march. The next deadline will be February 15, the announced date on which the deadline for the booster dose is reduced from seven to four months.