THE QUESTION
.
Can school heads have access to the vaccination status of students?
The question was raised during the night from Wednesday to Thursday in the National Assembly, when Minister Olivier Véran presented an amendment within the framework of the bill on “
health vigilance
”.
This text could allow principals of schools and establishments to seize health insurance, in order to know the vaccination status of the pupils.
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After a lively debate in the hemicycle, the amendment was finally adopted. LR deputy, Philippe Gosselin, warned the government: "
You are opening an unthinkable breach in medical secrecy at school which must be kept
". "
This government amendment violates medical confidentiality in an extremely serious way
," retorted Émilie Cariou, member of the New Democrats, ex LREM. For his part, facing Jean-Jacques Bourdin this Friday morning, Olivier Véran assured: “
This is not the end of medical confidentiality concerning the Covid.
"
If the text still has to be validated by the Senate, many are those to ask the question of the interference of a measure like this one in the medical secrecy.
Is the government really opening
a
"
breach
" by offering the possibility to school directors to seize the health insurance to know the medical status of the students?
CHECKS
.
First of all, how is medical confidentiality defined?
According to Maître Patrick de la Grange, lawyer specializing in criminal and health law, “
medical confidentiality is one of the three secrets whose violation is sanctioned in the Penal Code.
»Among them, we find the
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