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COVID-19: 3,000 unvaccinated health workers in France suspended without pay

by NewsNet Nigeria
4 years ago
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COVID-19: 3,000 unvaccinated health workers in France suspended without pay

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France Health Minister, Olivier Veran said on Thursday that thousands of health workers across the country have been suspended without pay for refusing to take a Covid-19 vaccine.

The suspension comes just two days after doctors and health workers staged mass protests against mandatory vaccination measures which many view as being an attack on their civil liberties.

France’s national public health agency estimated last week that roughly 12 percent of hospital staff and around six percent of doctors in private practices have yet to be vaccinated, leading the ministry to ban 3000 people from their jobs.

President Emmanuel Macron gave staff at hospitals, retirement home workers and the fire service an ultimatum in July to get at least one shot by September 15 or face unpaid suspension.

‘Some 3,000 suspensions were notified yesterday to employees at health centres and clinics who have not yet been vaccinated,’ Veran told RTL radio.

He added that ‘several dozens’ had turned in their resignations rather than sign up for the jabs.

Despite this, the minister added: ‘We are talking about 2.7 million employees [within France’s national health service]’, before insisting that ‘the continuity of nationwide care has been ensured,’ because ‘a large number of these suspensions are only temporary.’

Veran also said that there were ‘very few white coats’ – a reference to actual medics – among those refusing to be vaccinated, most of whom he declared were ‘support staff’.

Based on figures provided by individual hospitals, the actual number of suspended employees could be higher.

The Paris hospital system said Thursday that 340 workers had been suspended, while local press reports have cited large numbers at hospitals in smaller cities – up to 450 in Nice and 100 in Perpignan.

Available figures point to nearly 1,500 suspensions Thursday at just over a dozen hospitals, according to an AFP tally, with dozens more elsewhere across France.

(This story, excluding headline, contains information from DAILY MAIL)

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