THE QUESTION.
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We can ask the question in crude terms: is it logical to benefit from free healthcare when you have refused free vaccination for yourself and you are doubly endangering others, (...) by being able to take a place in intensive care needed for another patient?
".
Thus questioned Martin Hirsch, director of Public Assistance - Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP), in a column published on January 25 in
Le Monde
.
The following day, invited on the program “C à vous” on France 5, the director reiterated his questioning about the relevance of treating the non-vaccinated free of charge, which would penalize the entire hospital system.
To read alsoHirsch wants paid care for the non-vaccinated: “Tomorrow smokers who will have cancer will have to pay, too?”
Truly?
In a tweet on Thursday, epidemiologist Alice Desbiolles noted another reality: “
According to the AP-HP, 18% of operating theaters are closed.
Only 4% for Covid reasons
, ”she said, relying on a document signed by the AP-HP itself.
According to this same source, the closures are mainly explained by…
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