“It’s just clientelism and demagoguery”reacts Thursday, May 26 on franceinfo Mathias Wargon, emergency doctor who directs the emergencies and the SMUR (mobile emergency and resuscitation service) of the Delafontaine hospital in Saint-Denis, about the reintegration of caregivers who are not vaccinated against Covid-19, although they have been obliged to since September 15, 2021.
At the end of April, the President of the Republic nevertheless opened the door to a possible reintegration of non-vaccinated caregivers, in the face of the shortage of staff in hospitals, and in particular in emergency services.
Reintroducing unvaccinated caregivers? ➡️ Mathias Wargon denounces “a laxity on public health”. “Are we going to tell those who don’t believe in contemporary medicine ‘come back to the hospital’? It is clientelism and demagoguery.” pic.twitter.com/8GFrjYJGCI
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Mathias Wargon believes that the caregivers who got vaccinated in the first weeks made a “effort” and have demonstrated “of enormous courage”. And wonders: “So we’re going to say to those who didn’t want to be vaccinated: ‘Come back to the hospital?'”asks the emergency doctor, who believes that unvaccinated caregivers are “those who don’t believe in contemporary medicine, those who believe that vaccines kill, those who read the conspiratorial press”.
“Does that mean that the next time, when I go to prescribe a medicine, they will say to me ‘ah no, I don’t do it, I don’t believe it’?”
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“Or what does that mean? They inject products that they themselves wouldn’t inject? It’s very weird all the same!”, continued Mathias Wargon. The number of unvaccinated caregivers is estimated at 15,000, according to figures from the Ministry of Health, but according to Mathias Wargon, “we don’t even know” how many they are. “That’s not what makes the difference”, he concludes. The emergency doctor is in favor of compulsory vaccination “for everyone”and not just for caregivers.