“It's huge to be there to party, we gave everything so much for over a year, we deserve it!
», Exclaims Catherine, medical assistant at Necker hospital (Paris XVth).
While the 2021 edition of Solidays has been canceled, its organizers have created a surprise by announcing a special event reserved for health personnel.
10,000 of them were able to enjoy concerts by -M-, Amadou and Mariam, Youssoupha, Suzane and even Hervé, torn between the joy of celebrating life with music and the fear of a fourth wave of the epidemic.
"If we are there, it is because we are vaccinated", affirms Gaëlle, psychomotor therapist in favor of vaccination "to avoid seeing patients again suffering" from Covid-19.
“So that we can live again normally, we have to be vaccinated” adds his colleague Anne-Charlotte, physiotherapist.
Between two concerts, Thomas, a nurse in intensive care, pleads for "to make vaccination compulsory" in order to push "for collective responsibility".
Further on, a trio of pharmacist friends tempers and prefers to continue "to raise awareness and inform" to "gradually convince of the importance" of the operation.
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In France, 22% of liberal caregivers are still unvaccinated, a figure that rises to 36.5% in hospitals and up to 44.7% in nursing homes. Monday June 28, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran was then made threatening, announcing that if "at least 80%" of the personnel were not vaccinated by September, (...) the way of a vaccination obligation would be open for healthcare professionals ”.
