While the examination of the bill on the extension of the health pass, continues, this Thursday in the National Assembly, the deputies agreed to modify the part of the text relating to access to health establishments. health.
The obligation to have a health pass - vaccine or test of less than 48 hours to accompany, visit a loved one or to access scheduled care - contained in the government bill, particularly stirred the debates within of the Bourbon Palace.
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A constitutional puzzle
Apart from emergency cases, paragraph 11 of the bill provided for restricting this access, by obliging visitors to present their complete vaccination schedule or a negative test of less than 48 hours or proof of contamination of less than 6 months but more than 11 days.
An obligation deemed liberticidal by many deputies
An obligation deemed liberticidal by many deputies including Martine Wonner, covidosceptic who challenged the Minister of Solidarity and Health, Brigitte Bourguignon on the subject.
LFI MP Caroline Fiat, nursing assistant by profession, spoke of the "last moments" of patients and the difficulty of asking families for health passes (negative Covid test, vaccination certificate or certificate of recovery) to come to their bedside.
"We will know how to protect patients," she assured.
"It is no longer tolerable to prevent people from visiting their relatives", according to some deputies
According to the amendment presented by the group Les Républicains et la France Insoumise: “It is no longer tolerable to prevent people from going to visit their relatives.
Respecting the wearing of a mask and social distancing makes it possible to greatly limit the risk of contamination and seems to us to be more than sufficient to allow the visit of relatives and families.
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In the hemicycle, the deputy of Yvelines Philippe Benassaya (LR) expressed himself affirming "that it is absolutely necessary to guarantee a right to the visit whatever the vaccination status of the visitor" particularly to "see one last time a relative dying ”.
Statements which visibly hit the mark since the deputies supported this amendment against the health pass with 70 votes, while 67 opposed it (the majority was set at 69).
Health establishments and hospitals: "It is absolutely necessary to guarantee a right to visit whatever the vaccination status of the visitor", declares @PhilipBenassaya.
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- LCP (@LCP) July 22, 2021
The debate is not over, however.
The bill must still be examined by the Senate before returning to the National Assembly and being definitively adopted.