Farewell forbidden at end of life.
Sick people deprived of visits.
Limitation of freedoms in Ehpad.
In eighteen months of the pandemic, personal tragedies and ethical setbacks in the places of care for the most vulnerable have multiplied.
A bill seeks to draw lessons from these flaws in human support.
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On Tuesday, the Senate examined a text by Bruno Retailleau (LR) which aims to guarantee visiting rights for patients in hospital and residents of nursing homes by engraving it in the public health code and in the code of the social action and families.
“The health crisis has brought to light a lack of humanity.
For many months, fragile, sick and disabled people were left alone and deprived of visits, although this link with their loved ones constitutes for some their reason for living.
What they experienced is unacceptable.
This is why we must bring this principle of civilization into law, ”
pleads the leader of the senators.
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