The coordinating doctors of retirement homes do not go to great lengths to demand a salary increase.
"They will no longer vaccinate employees of nursing homes," he said in a statement by the unions SMCG-CSMF and SNGIE, which defend the interests of some 2,500 practitioners concerned.
The doctors of nursing homes did not benefit either from the salary increases granted from 2020 to their colleagues in hospitals, nor from those granted to non-medical caregivers according to the “Ségur de la santé”, explains Renaud Marin La Meslée, president of the SNGIE .
"We are demanding the same thing as what doctors obtained from public hospitals," he added, or, according to his calculations, 513 euros per month for a full-time person.
"As long as this injustice is not repaired, the coordinating doctors will stick strictly to their 14 missions set by the code of social action and families", which do not include the vaccination of staff, said the two unions.
A large number of professionals have in any case already received their third dose and the others will therefore now have to try to find a vaccination niche like everyone else with their attending physician or on Doctolib, argued Mr. Marin La Meslée.
"We are not irresponsible, we do not put anybody at risk by possibly delaying the vaccination booster for employees by a few weeks," he said.
