The Minister of Health, François Braun, will decide whether or not to reinstate caregivers who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 when he has received the opinions of the High Health Authority and the National Ethics Advisory Committee, he said – he indicated this Sunday to the Grand Jury RTL-LCI-Le Figaro.
“The problem of unvaccinated caregivers is on two levels,” explained the minister, who was asked about this option given the shortage of caregivers in hospitals.
“It is above all at the level of health security: do we accept that people who are not sufficiently protected are close to the most fragile people?” he asked, recalling that “we still die every day from Covid in France”. .
An “ethical issue”
And furthermore, “there is an ethical issue,” he added, particularly in relation to caregivers who played the game at the height of the Covid crisis and who “held the line.”
To answer the question, “I contacted the High Health Authority, which is to give me an opinion at the beginning of the year on mandatory vaccinations in general”, and “I also contacted the National Ethics Advisory Committee which will also give me an opinion” on the subject, he said.
“I will make my decision once I have these two opinions,” he announced.
Regarding the number of caregivers in question, it is about “very few doctors” and “1050 nurses, that is the figure that the president of the Order of Nurses gave me, about 300,000 approximately”, recalled the minister, considering that their reinstatement or not would have little impact on the problem of carer shortages.
Source: BFM TV
