In mid-September, the vaccination obligation for caregivers will come into force.

This news is very badly taken by some hospital staff, as in Mulhouse, where some of the hospital staff decided to go on strike this week.

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"We have the right to do what we want with our body too, have the right to say no to the vaccine," says Caroline, one of the maintenance workers at the Mulhouse hospital.

On the front of the coronavirus epidemic, tension remains high in the hospital, in terms of health, due to the progression of the delta variant.

But on the social level too, the return to school promises to be tense.

The Mulhouse hospital is thus on strike this week against the vaccination obligation made to caregivers, with a demonstration scheduled for Thursday.

"We are considered outlaws"

Within the Alsatian hospital establishment, approximately 65% ​​of the agents are vaccinated, much more among the doctors, much less among the nursing assistants or the maintenance agents.

"I call it dictatorship. We do not ask people either for the vaccine, or for nothing. It is not said, it is not human", plague Nadia, also maintenance worker.

The two women are ulcerated "that they are forced to inject a product into the body".

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Second measure that does not pass: the suspension of contracts for non-vaccinated.

"Previously, we were made to come positive for Covid to go to work. And now that the vaccine exists, we are considered outlaws," continues Nadia, annoyed.

"It's sad"

The entry into force of the vaccination obligation for staff in the care and health services is set for September 15.

And this date panics the teams, according to Nathalie, of the Unsa union: "We questioned our members. We had a lot of calls, from desperate people who were waiting for us to support them, who do not want to find themselves with the knife. under the throat, ”she describes.

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For Nathalie, the caregivers' strike is not "an anti-vaccine movement". "We respect the people who have chosen to be vaccinated and the agents who have chosen not to be injected with this vaccine," she says. The movement despairs some vaccinated in the Mulhouse hospital. For a chief medical officer, "it is sad". "To believe that the staff have forgotten that here, last year, we lived through hell," he concludes.