- The city of Marseille offers screening to all municipal officials who have remained in office until now, but the unions regret waiting times of three hours, which generate stress.
- About a third of the people in the job agreed to be tested, or 560 screenings, for no positive test.
- The Paca Regional Health Agency explains that it was not warned, but can "endorse" this kind of exceptional screening.
A screening of people who have remained in post, not yet of those who will return from deconfinement. The city of Marseille has decided to screen all the municipal officials who have remained in office until now, on a voluntary basis. This same Covid-19 screening will also be offered to people who return to work from the start of deconfinement. It is at the IHU of Professor Didier Raoult that screenings have been taking place for ten days now, which has always advocated the strategy of "detecting, isolating, and treating".
The city of Béziers, in Hérault, has chosen the same strategy. However, the Occitanie Regional Health Agency (ARS) opposed this screening, recalling that the national strategy was to screen people with symptoms and their entourage.
"A good thing", but outside the national strategy
ARS Paca also complies with the national strategy, people with symptoms will be encouraged to be screened, as well as contact persons. "We were not informed of the screening carried out by the city of Marseille, but if it is exceptional and concerns people in contact with fragile audiences then we can endorse it," says ARS at 20 Minutes . According to the town hall, of the 1,700 agents who continued to work, 33% agreed to be screened, or 560 agents, for no positive test.
For Patrick Rué, secretary general of the Labor Force of the territorial agents of the city of Marseille, this screening is a good thing. "It's a little late, we've been asking for it since the end of March, but better late than never. This is a good thing. There is still the risk of not being able to test everyone by the start of the school year, so it is done in an emergency, with all the stress that it generates, and which is added to that caused by the emergency in which we work to welcome students Tuesday, "he says.
Lots of waiting
Françoise Risterucci, from the CGT of the territorial agents of the city of Marseille did not get tested. “I was asked if I wanted to be tested, and I refused because many colleagues told me that it was very long, almost three hours of waiting. We are not priority audiences, so we wait like everyone else, ”she explains.
What Patrick Rué regrets: “We asked that the screenings be organized in premises of the city, so that it is faster. There, it is true that it is very long so some agents are reluctant to do it. But he said all volunteers should be screened in time. There will remain those who return to work from next week, the beginning of deconfinement and the start of the school year obliges.
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