Health care workers in France face suspension from their jobs if they haven't been vaccinated against COVID-19.
A medical worker holds a placard reading :"Money for Hospital, Not for the Capital, Our Solution Hospitals beds, Employs and quick", during a protest gathering outside the Health Ministry, in Paris, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021 against a law requiring them to get vaccinated by Wednesday or risk suspension from their jobs. The law is aimed at protecting patients from new surges of COVID-19. Most of the French population is vaccinated but a vocal minority are against the vaccine mandate.
The mandate was approved by France's parliament over the summer, after the government insisted that the measure was needed to protect patients and the public from new surges of COVID-19. More than 113,000 people with the virus have died in France, andNearly 90% of Frenchworkers are estimated to be vaccinated, and polls suggest most people support the vaccine mandate for medical staff.
“We are raising the alarm ... if you insist on implementing this measure your beds will be closed, thus reducing chances for a number of patients,” said Christophe Prudhomme, emergency room doctor and CGT union member, at a protest outside the Health Ministry on Tuesday.If health care workers have had only one dose, they have to take a virus test every three days until they have completed the second one. Oct.
“I am not a revolutionary, I am just afraid and we are thousands in this situation. I want them to listen to us and sit and talk around a table," said Rachid Ouchem, a medical-psychological assistant at a hospital in Plaisir west of Paris who doesn't want to be vaccinated and is facing suspension.
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