While 130,000 health professionals still had not received any dose of vaccine a month ago, the vaccination coverage of caregivers seems to have accelerated in recent weeks.
Health Insurance welcomed Thursday, November 18 the "very high level of vaccine coverage" of the profession, adding that only 160 doctors had been suspended for non-compliance with this obligation.
Of the 374,000 who work in France, “today we have around 1,350 liberal health professionals who are banned from practicing.
Including 160 doctors, a very low number, "said the director of Health Insurance Thomas Fatôme, during a press briefing, adding" that the figures were potentially moving every day ".
As of November 1, 96.7% of liberal health professionals, doctors, nurses, masseurs, physiotherapists, speech therapists, orthoptists… were vaccinated, detailed Thomas Fatôme, qualifying this vaccination rate as "considerable".
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Of the 1,700 liberal health professionals who were banned from practicing between October 15 and November 16, "we already have 350 who have been vaccinated," he said. he added, seeing in it "a dynamic of return to a normal situation".
Already obliged since September 15 to justify at least one injection, liberal caregivers such as employees of hospitals, clinics and retirement homes, home helpers, firefighters and paramedics must, since November 15, certify a " complete diagram ”, under penalty of prohibition proceedings which may be initiated by the regional health agencies.