A strong signal.

The departmental council of the Martinique medical order has decided that doctors publicly expressing an anti-vaccine opinion would be liable to penalties.

"Doctors who continue to advocate anti-vaccination are liable to a disciplinary sanction which goes from warning to radiation", because "they are wrong with the code of ethics", indicated the president council of the order Raymond Hélénon Monday during a press conference in Fort-de-France.

The order will therefore rely on the texts of the public health code to carry out its approach.

The vaccination rate is still low in Martinique (barely 20%), as in Guadeloupe, even if the centers have experienced a large influx in recent days, in the face of the violence of the fourth wave of the epidemic in the West Indies.

"It will be necessary to accelerate the pace", assured François Roch, the president of the medical committee of establishment at the CHU.

We went from 500 to 1,000 people vaccinated per day "with patients who expressed some concern about the health disaster and the many deaths recorded in Martinique".

For several days, the epidemic has been blazing in the West Indies with health services under pressure, despite reinforcements from caregivers from mainland France.

Health authorities recorded 4,226 positive cases last week and the prefect tightened on August 11 the confinement put in place on July 30.

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“Let people choose if necessary, but they must not discredit the doctor's words.

Because we are witnessing a war of for and against.

And that's not healthy.

Doctors must have only one word, ”added the president of the order.

The intervention of the council of the order came to reinforce the declaration of 600 doctors and scientists of the Overseas who signed a platform calling to be vaccinated.

The majority of the medical staff of the Martinique University Hospital, on the front line in the face of this epidemic, are already vaccinated themselves.

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