Stop procrastinating and make way for a clear-cut opinion in favor of the reinstatement of suspended staff, for not having accepted to be vaccinated against Covid-19; this is the request of MP Olivier Serva, addressed to the government and the High Authority for Health. The latter announced, on Monday, to consider the end of the vaccination obligation.
The deputy of the first constituency of Guadeloupe, Olivier Serva, seized the ball: while the High Authority for Health (HAS) paved the way, this Monday, February 20, 2023, for a relaxation of the obligation to vaccinate against Covid imposed on the personnel of health and medico-social establishments, in accordance with the law of August 5, 2021, the Parliamentarian “calls on the government to end the stubbornness by reinstating the suspended personnel”. He denounces, at the same time, an opinion still too “stammering” of the HAS.
The announcement of the HAS indeed suggests a favorable outcome, for caregivers who refused the injection which is imposed on them, still to this day, to be able to exercise their profession. However, it has reserved its final opinion for the end of March. Given “societal importance“of the subject, the institution will conduct a public consultation for a month, before issuing a final opinion next month.
The government, which in principle follows the opinion of the HAS, as well as many health professionals are opposed to the reinstatement of “unvaccinated” ; this, for medical and ethical reasons.
Olivier Serva, for his part, is delighted that the HAS “is finally starting to open our eyes by putting ourselves in line with the global and European reality”while “everywhere in the world, except in France and Hungary, the vaccination obligation is lifted and caregivers are reinstated”.
Dozens of professionals have not received any salary for several months, since they have been dismissed from their jobs. The MP talks about “entire families in unspeakable situations of distress for more than a year”. Tired of fighting, some agreed to be vaccinated. Others have taken advantage of the perches given to them by the authorities, choosing to change career paths and/or to receive the compensation provided.
THE “unvaccinated“Will they all have time to benefit from the end of a measure (of a law) that they consider unfair? Not sure.
Olivier Serva, in his press release, also denounces the fact that the government opened, this Monday, February 20, a conventional termination procedure for the suspended staff; procedure running until June 30th. “France continues to distinguish itself negatively, in the treatment of those who were applauded every night in 2020“, protests the deputy, who solemnly calls on the government “to put an end to the tensions and this position of pride which really no longer has any meaning”.