Covid-19: reintegrating non-vaccinated caregivers would be “a fault”, judges the Academy of Medicine – Le Figaro

Reintegrating non-vaccinated nursing staff would be risky and would not “resolve the current difficulties in the operation of the hospital”, she believes. The debate on the future of professionals who have refused the vaccine against Covid-19 continues . In a press release published on Tuesday, the National Academy of Medicine in turn takes a position on this thorny issue, a source of lively exchanges between the government and the opposition, and judges that a reinstatement of non-vaccinated caregivers would be a “fault” .The institution begins by recalling its strong support for vaccination and the obligation for caregivers, judging that “vaccination hesitation [est] ethically unacceptable in their profession. While several political groups, including La France insoumise and the National Rally, have recently come out in favor of reinstating these professionals, the Academy stresses that “any refusal to be vaccinated motivated by personal convictions is respectable, but incompatible with the profession. less effective against new variants, vaccines remain useful against transmission and, more markedly, against severe forms of Covid-19. In addition, “none of the rehashed arguments (lack of efficacy, adverse effects, lack of hindsight, etc.) can scientifically validate the refusal to be vaccinated, the real medical contraindications to vaccination being very rare”, pleads the organization. Reintegrating non-vaccinated nursing staff would pose a risk to fragile patients, “would compromise the climate of trust and cohesion” within the teams and would not “resolve the current difficulties in the operation of the hospital”, adds- she, hammering her “firm opposition” to this track. SEE ALSO – Covid-19: reintegrating unvaccinated caregivers is “demagogy”, according to Mathias Wargon A heated debate in the National Assembly During the debates in the National Assembly on the bill “monitoring and health security in the fight against Covid-19″, several deputies tabled amendments – deemed inadmissible – pleading for an immediate return of the professionals concerned, suspended since last fall. The government rejected them: while the epidemic is in an “ascending phase”, with more than 130,000 cases detected each day, this track “cannot be on the agenda”, if is justified the Minister of Health, François Braun, under the boos of the elected representatives of the RN group. If this option is “not on the table”, the executive will all the same consult “in the coming days the scientific authorities and ethics, in particular the HAS, […] and CCNE” on this issue, before bringing together the unions and presenting a “clear, objective, reasoned response” to parliamentarians. For their part, professionals are deeply divided on this track, some seeing it as welcome reinforcements for the hospital, when others point to health risks. Still, the number of nursing staff concerned, as pointed out by the National Academy of Medicine, is minimal: citing the feedback from the ARS, François Braun quantified the proportion of suspended agents at 0.53%, at the beginning of July, or approximately 12,000 people, some of whom are not part of the nursing staff. For its part, the FHF judged in mid-June that there was “no pool of professionals to seek” among these agents and estimated their number between “4000 to 5000” professionals, caregivers and non-caregivers combined. Or “0.3% of the total of the agents of the establishments”.SEE ALSO – Emmanuel Macron does not set a date for the reintegration of unvaccinated caregivers