Several hundred people participated this Saturday in Guadeloupe in a citizens' rally to say "
stop
" to violence against hospital staff on the island, against the backdrop of the crisis around the vaccination obligation, noted an AFP journalist.
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During this event organized by a citizen collective at the Memorial ACTe, caregivers came to testify to a climate
of “terror
” at the University Hospital Center (CHU) and deplored the general climate of disinformation around the health crisis. "
We must free the hospital, we refuse terror
", hammered Serge Romana, geneticist Guadeloupe, officiating in Paris, but present at the rally to the applause of the crowd.
Tuesday, the director of the CHU of Guadeloupe Gérard Cotellon and his two assistants had to be exfiltrated by the police from their offices besieged by militants against the vaccine obligation.
"
Cotellon is attacked because he is competent but above all because he is '
neg gwadloup'
(native Guadeloupe)
", said Serge Romana recalling the treacherous trial made by the opponents of the vaccine obligation to the director of the CHU , which, according to them, applies the “
laws of the colonial state
”.
Curfew decreed between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.
Teachers and former trade unionists have also denounced trade union "
methods
" which lack "
ethics in all public services, especially at the CHU
", occupied since November 15 by staff affiliated with the health branch of the UGTG union (General Union of workers from Guadeloupe). "
Frankly, it's good to see that people are starting to speak publicly around this permanent pressure to come to work and this feeling of never being free and comfortable at work
", underlined Doctor Tania Foucan, forensic pathologist. .
A little further, the collective against the vaccine obligation was also mobilized, trying to reach the memorial and supervised by some members of the police.
"
They leave us without pay, without a job, we will not let go
", told AFP Gaby Clavier, former secretary general of the health branch of the UGTG, in reference to the suspensions linked to the refusal of nursing staff to do so. vaccinate.
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In Guadeloupe, the fifth wave caused between Monday and Friday more than 7,000 contaminations.
The Omicron variant represents 100% of samples and the pressure on the SAMU and intensive care admissions is accelerating, according to an epidemiological bulletin from the Regional Health Agency and the prefecture.
In this context, the curfew decreed between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. will be brought forward from Monday to 8 p.m., announced the prefecture.