The director general of the CHU of Guadeloupe, where more than 70% of the agents are not vaccinated against the Covid-19, estimated Thursday to be
"in the impossibility"
to suspend them, as provided for by the law on the compulsory vaccination, entered into force Wednesday.
"I can not apply the law"
, told AFP Gérard Cotellon, the director of the hospital where 74.19% of non-medical staff have not yet started a vaccination course.
A situation which puts him
"in the impossibility"
of suspending unvaccinated agents, under penalty of penalizing the activity of the CHU, he said.
"I therefore take on myself this responsibility of running the hospital, despite the law,"
he lamented.
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A request for interim relief from a nurse at the CHU, who wanted to suspend a note from the management of the hospital recalling the vaccination obligation for health personnel, was rejected by the administrative court of the island, announced this last in a statement Thursday.
On Wednesday, the director general of the Regional Health Agency, Valérie Denux, had detailed the way in which the vaccination obligation would be implemented in the territory:
“We will give educational reminders to unvaccinated caregivers.
We will write to them and start a dialogue, so that the professionals concerned can understand the major importance of vaccination ”
, before the introduction of more stringent controls, accompanied by possible sanctions.
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Since the start of the pandemic, the authorities in Guadeloupe have encountered very strong opposition to the management of the health crisis. The union General Union of Workers of Guadeloupe and the LKP collective (Lyannaj Konrt Pwofitasyion), which campaign against the vaccination obligation, filed a new complaint against X on Tuesday, highlighting, among other things, the
"influx of visitors"
during summer vacations and the state of the hospital system in Guadeloupe.
