Health. The Minister of Health Olivier Véran announced a postponement of the vaccination obligation for caregivers in the overseas departments overwhelmed by the influx of patients affected by covid-19. A delay which also concerns nursing staff in Saint-Martin.
While in the West Indian islands, many unions and collectives fiercely oppose the compulsory vaccination, a reprieve has been granted by the government to caregivers currently engaged in the fight against the 4th wave of Covid-19.
It was during a press briefing that the Minister of Health Olivier Véran announced a postponement of the vaccination obligation for caregivers in the overseas departments submerged by the fourth epidemic wave, in particular in Martinique and Guadeloupe where the measure will be "pushed to the other side of the wave" because "we were not going to add this constraint to them" he explained yesterday, Thursday, August 26, 2021. I announced that the vaccination obligation only for the overseas territories affected by the fourth wave would be postponed… but that it would take place, ”he said, suggesting that the measure would take effect as soon as the health situation improves in these territories. A period that will also be granted to nursing staff engaged in the fight against the coronavirus in Saint-Martin where on August 30, 12 people were still hospitalized at the Louis Constant Flemming hospital. In addition, the Minister of Health wanted to challenge a number of infoxes concerning the vaccine. “No, messenger RNA vaccines do not modify the human genome”, “no the vaccine does not disturb the fertility of women,” he explained in particular. In the Overseas Territories, “a substantial part of the population doubts the vaccine, its effectiveness, thinks that there are other means of fighting the virus. Except that doubt will have killed and sometimes still kills in metropolitan France too ", continued the minister, who said to have" seen with (his) eyes what the Delta variant can cause "in particular in Martinique where the minister went on August 12th.
No reversing in France
The government will not “back down” on the vaccination obligation imposed on nursing staff from September 15, and the sanctions planned against recalcitrant employees will be “implemented” on that date, Prime Minister Jean announced on Thursday August 26. Castex. The staff of health establishments or those working with fragile people have until September 15 to receive a first dose of vaccine, then until October 15 for the second, under penalty of being suspended. To date, more than 83% of caregivers in hospitals or retirement homes are vaccinated, said the Prime Minister.
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