Michel Barnier announced this Monday, November 25, the experimentation of kits to detect a chemical product reimbursed by Social Security in several departments, on the occasion of the international day to combat violence against women and in the midst of the rape of Mazan.
“We are going to experiment with reimbursement by Health Insurance in various departments of individual kits that allow the detection of a chemical presentation to improve care for possible victims,” declared the Prime Minister after speaking with the staff of the women’s center of the AP. -HP Hotel Dieu.
A measure requested by the Order of Physicians
This measure was requested by the National Council of the College of Physicians (Cnom) on October 24. He asked public authorities to make tests to detect the presentation of chemical substances “accessible and reimbursable”, even without filing a complaint, to improve care for possible victims.
A proposal also from Sandrine Josso, a modern deputy who filed a complaint against the centrist senator Joël Guerriau. who she accuses of having drugged her. He called for the creation of a “screening kit” that pharmacies can provide with a prescription to people who believe they have been victims of chemical abuse, he explained to Huffpost on October 9.
Previously, on November 25, the government announced new measures against violence against women, including the expansion of the system that allows women victims of sexual violence to file complaints in hospitals to new health facilities, the launch of a information to help victims of chemical subjugation and increasing the budget for universal emergency aid.
Source: BFM TV
