Senators passed the health bill on first reading after restoring the possibility of resorting to health checks on travelers, which the National Assembly scrapped. The most important change to the text is the possibility of verification for people from overseas communities, introduced at the initiative of Thani Mohamed Soilihi, Senator of Mayotte. A change contested by Victorin Lurel. The Guadeloupe senator believes this is very bad news for overseas territories.
FJO. • Posted Jul 21, 2022 4:00 pm, Updated Jul 21, 2022 5:56 pm
If Victorin Lurel never fails to seek cohesion with his colleagues and especially with the other MPs of Guadeloupe, he does not hesitate to show his differences, especially on health issues.
Even as the Senate began examining the health care bill, which was already being battered by lawmakers, Senator Lurel issued a press release setting out his position, particularly on the issue of reinstating suspended health workers.
And according to him, it is first necessary to distinguish the “people who work on the periphery of the care services” who, according to him, can benefit from a lifetime reintegration without directly intervening in the care of patients.
According to Senator Lurel, the situation is very different with regard to “personnel in direct contact with a fragile and vulnerable public”.
The notion of role model and values associated with nursing must remain at the heart of the nursing profession. However, as the Scientific Council and the Academy of Medicine stressed yesterday, “any refusal to be vaccinated out of personal conviction is respectable but incompatible with the nursing profession”. Aside from the ethical, deontological and health arguments, I am also concerned that the reintroduction of about 6% of unvaccinated caregivers will undermine the climate of trust within care teams who have overwhelmingly chosen to protect others.
Finally, if Victorin Lurel was involved in the adoption of the principle of a travel health certificate for trips to overseas France, he radically opposed the adoption of an amendment imposing the same certificate on residents of overseas France who wish to go to France.
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And Senator Lurel finally:
I see myself as having a moral, human and therefore political duty to do everything possible to save lives. I therefore continue to defend all legal and reasonable measures to protect the residents of Guadeloupe.