Despite the validation of the new health law by the Constitutional Council, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran wanted to be reassuring this Thursday.

The text provides in particular for the obligation to present a health pass for visitors or non-urgent patients going to health establishments and retirement homes.

A measure strongly criticized by health professionals in recent days, but which the Wise Men did not consider contrary to the Constitution provided that the pass does not “obstruct access to care”.

A condition that Olivier Véran had already promised, shortly before the Constitutional Council rendered its decision.

"No one will be deprived of care according to the health pass" and "we will never stop treating anyone", insisted the minister during a meeting with the carers of the Aix-en-Provence hospital center this Thursday.

"We want to make a sanctuary like in nursing homes (...), that by all means the virus can not enter", continued the minister.

No concession for the vaccination of caregivers

Regarding the compulsory vaccination of caregivers, on the other hand, the Minister of Health remained more vague. The device validated this Thursday by the Constitutional Council Thursday is far from unanimous. Thursday morning, dozens of people demonstrated in front of the University Hospital Institute (IHU) and the North Hospital of Marseille against the compulsory vaccination of hospital staff at the call of the Sud Santé union joined by the CGT. There was a "democratic debate in the National Assembly and in the Senate," replied the minister.

Olivier Véran underlined the new profile of Covid-19 patients: "in intensive care we find people who are a little younger than in previous waves, since very old people are massively vaccinated".

We find "almost exclusively unvaccinated patients, we also see people who worsen faster than in previous waves", an effect "probably" of the Delta variant, he noted.

“The teams tell me that they have the feeling of being a bit like before a tsunami, that is to say when you have the feeling that the wave is withdrawing, that the birds are no longer singing, that 'There is more wind and we are waiting for the moment when the water will drop, ”he said.

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