Time is no longer half-measure.
While France is facing an epidemic recovery, overseas but also in metropolitan France, Frédéric Valletoux, president of the French Hospital Federation (FHF), which leads the way of public hospitals and nursing homes, asks the government to cross the course of compulsory vaccination for all, in an article in the
Journal du Dimanche
.
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According to the president of the FHF, also mayor (LR) of Fontainebleau, the controversial health pass, which should come into force from August 9, "
will not be enough to achieve real collective immunity
".
Faced with "
the unprecedented speed of this fourth wave
", he calls on the government to take "
the course of obligation with voluntarism
".
A question which, according to him, "
was undoubtedly taboo a few months ago, because we were in this obligatory passage where the conviction and the pedagogy had to prevail
", but "
it is time to look beyond the incentive to take the last step,
”says the elected official.
"
Each day that passes sees
the anti-vaccines harden their point
".
A "
simple, clear and effective
"
measure
, unlike the sanitary pass
Compulsory vaccination, according to him, is a measure "
simple, clear and effective, when the implementation of the pass promises to be of rare complexity, especially in hospitals to draw a border between the patients for whom it is will be asked at the entrance, and the others
”
.
Indeed, the health pass, if it receives the approval of the Constitutional Council, will come into force as of August 9, according to government announcements.
If the wise men do not challenge certain points of the law, visitors and patients will have to present this pass to go to a hospital or an nursing home, except for medical emergencies.
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While several Western countries have chosen compulsory vaccination for caregivers, such as Italy at the end of May and Greece in mid-July, Frédéric Valletoux would like France to get out of its “
too individualistic
” approach and become “
a pioneer country (which) starts a worldwide movement in favor of compulsory vaccination
”.
On July 12, Emmanuel Macron considered this hypothesis in his speech: "
Depending on the evolution of the situation, we will undoubtedly have to ask ourselves the question of the compulsory vaccination of all French people
", admitted the President of the Republic. . Following the presidential statement, on July 16, the High Authority for Health had ordered to open the debate and "
to reflect on the subject
".