After the opinion of the HAS, a date. According to the Minister of Health, François Braun, caregivers suspended for lack of having been vaccinated against Covid-19 will be reinstated as soon as a decree is published in the coming days, in the Official Journal. According to the member of the government, the text should appear in “mid-May”. This decision follows the favorable opinion of the High Authority for Health (HAS) given at the end of March on the lifting of the vaccination obligation against Covid for caregivers and other professionals concerned.
“These caregivers are going to be reinstated. In recent weeks, I have brought together all the stakeholders, because I want the reintegration to take place, but in good conditions”, explained the Minister of Health on the sidelines of a trip to the Marne, Friday 28 april. His remarks were taken up on Sunday in the local newspaper Le Pays briard and Monday by Le Parisien. “The unvaccinated are not necessarily expected with flowers in all departments and everywhere,” he stressed. “Instruction is ready. I will sign it at the very beginning of next week (from May 2, editor’s note). The implementing decree will be for mid-May,” he said.
Paris had opted for the constraint at the end of the summer of 2021: the obligation to be vaccinated was required from 2.7 million people, caregivers but also staff of hospitals and retirement homes, paramedics, home helpers or firefighters.
Failing to certify a complete vaccination schedule (two, then three doses), a few thousand have since been suspended, without remuneration. “A very minority, even marginal phenomenon” for the ministry, which estimated in March the proportion of hospital workers still concerned, “around 0.3%”. Same tiny proportion on the Liberal side, where Health Insurance counted less than 2,000 suspended caregivers in mid-March.
The question of their reintegration had become a political battle horse, in particular for the National Rally and La France insoumise. The communist group put this reintegration on the agenda of its parliamentary niche on May 4. For the minister, “the best thing would be to withdraw the discussions on this project, since, as they say, things will be done”.
