September 15, 2022 will mark the first anniversary of compulsory vaccination for healthcare workers and health services.
This date will also mark the first year of suspension of workers in these sectors who have refused the Covid-19 vaccine.
A firefighter, a doctor and a nurse have agreed to testify about their current situation after a year without working.
A year ago, an application circular for the health crisis management law of August 5, 2021 defined the rules of the vaccination obligation, as of September 15, 2021, for the personnel of health and medical establishments and services. -social.
Overnight, thousands of workers in these sectors found themselves suspended from their jobs for refusing to receive the Covid vaccine.
Since then, the situation has not changed, the High Authority for Health (HAS) having confirmed, at the end of July, its opposition to the lifting of the vaccination obligation.
Without work, without pay, without the prospect of short-term reintegration, what has become of these suspended Covid-19?
Three of them agreed to testify in
20 Minutes
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He is no longer a doctor in spite of himself
General practitioner in the small town of Jenlain, in the North, Dr Grégory Pamart closed his practice on September 15, 2021. A closure linked to his decision to refuse the vaccine on which he had explained himself at length in a post, published on its website.
“It was the only choice that was imposed on me at the time, even if it hurt my heart to leave my patients,” he still assumes today.
A year later, Dr. Pamart is still not vaccinated and therefore cannot resume his activity.
He also has three proceedings brought against him by the Bar Council, more or less linked to the coronavirus epidemic.
"The sanctions could go as far as deregistration, I know it, and I am ready today to no longer practice, even if I do not wish to," he says.
Because, by his own admission, "a doctor earns a good living", Grégory Pamart can largely subsist on his savings without working.
"I learned to live more simply, to give up certain things," he explains.
My rhythm of life has changed, I cultivate myself, take advantage of my children.
He even ran "without a label" in the last legislative elections.
“I did what was right in my opinion.
Today, I am happy, even if I am convinced that I am faced with an injustice.
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Like a firefighter without fire
“Being a firefighter was my childhood dream, my vocation.
With regret, but because my convictions and my values go beyond my passion, I got used to the idea of never being one again, ”says Pierrick Thevenon, professional firefighter in Lyon since 2012.
At 34, he refutes the antivax label, in particular because he has always been up to date with the vaccines required as part of his profession.
His decision to override the one against Covid-19, he explains "as a precautionary principle" applied to himself.
Except that his caution earned him a suspension.
“It's as if your professional and economic life were on hold, you have no right to anything,” he laments.
Pierrick concedes that the first months without pay "were very difficult".
A former corporate trainer, he then decided to resume his activity.
But the beginnings were laborious: “I should only arrive today at a financial autonomy, fortunately that I am single without child”, slips the thirty-something.
Around him, Pierrick knows cases much more tense than his.
“Psychologically, I passed the course.
But that's not the case for everyone.
I also know many colleagues who have been vaccinated reluctantly, out of financial necessity,” he says.
The nurse who will become a teacher
Like the doctor and the firefighter, Emmanuelle, a nurse in Burgundy, refutes the “antivax” label.
"I just didn't agree with the use of a product for which we don't have enough perspective", explains this 50-year-old who, a year ago, worked in a medico-social establishment for people with psychiatric disorders.
Deprived of her only source of income since her suspension, Emmanuelle refuses to apply for social assistance.
"I did odd jobs, like going door-to-door for selective sorting," she explains.
Emmanuelle, however, does not complain.
"I was able to save money, my house is paid for and I have no children," she admits.
And even if the two ends do not always come together easily, the nurse will not get vaccinated.
Emmanuelle does not rule out practicing her nursing profession again.
However, the lack of perspective made him choose another path.
“I am preparing a retraining in the teaching of French as a foreign language, a little reluctantly, but it is a sector that is recruiting,” she says, pragmatically.
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