In France, non-vaccinated nursing staff will be able to return to work from Monday May 15. The government decree was published on Sunday May 14 in the Official Journal. The return of these personnel, dismissed during the Covid crisis, always raises some questions.
Two volunteer firefighters have just spent a year and a half outside their barracks, suspended because they did not want to be vaccinated. On the eve of their return to work, there is concern. “The problem is that today, our hierarchy in Reunion is not going to put a spoke in the wheels of the firefighters who could not and did not make the injection in question”asks Frédéric Grondin, volunteer firefighter – participatory union 974. “We were thrown away like dirt. There is a little bitterness”recognizes Bernard Beaupage, volunteer firefighter.
A period without pay, badly experienced by many
It is difficult to say precisely how many professionals will return to work on Monday May 15. Caregivers, hospital and retirement home staff, paramedics, home helpers, there would be a few thousand to have been suspended. A period without pay, badly experienced by many. On the side of the health establishments, the reception of the non-vaccinated promises to be complicated for the most militant antivax. Many doctors denounce the return of the non-vaccinated. For the future, the National Academy of Medicine recommends that vaccinations against Covid and even the flu, become compulsory for all healthcare personnel.
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