In a report published on Tuesday, the defender of rights is worried about the persistence in many nursing homes of violations of freedoms, in particular that of displacement, in the name of the epidemic risk.

The ambiguity of the health protocol decreed by the government is believed to be at the origin of these situations.

Defender of rights, Claire Hédon, is sounding the alarm on the situation in nursing homes.

It has been crumbling under more than 200 referrals since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

According to a report it published on Tuesday, the fundamental rights of the elderly are violated in hundreds of retirement homes out of 10,000 in France.

In particular, they are refused even the simple right to go out or see their relatives.

"A vaccinated resident can go out whenever they want, but ..."

These are heartbreaking situations that Sabrina Deliry has identified in particular for a year, for her pressure group the "Circle of caregivers in nursing homes".

She collects stories and first names: "Olivia's dad hasn't left his nursing home for over a year. He is in Paris, in a private nursing home that he pays dearly, and he has not. still been able to go out on the Champs de Mars where he went regularly, while he is vaccinated "she reports, for example, to Europe 1." However, the protocol stipulates that a vaccinated resident can go out when he wants, but in many nursing homes this is not the case, "laments Sabrina Deliry.

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An ambiguous health protocol

For Pascal Champvert, representative of the directors of the AD-PA nursing home, there is a huge gap between the government's easing announcements and what is written in the latest health protocol, very ambiguous according to him: "It is indicated that when employees are not massively vaccinated, no relaxation can be implemented. However, we know today, even if vaccination is progressing, that they are not massively vaccinated. This simple little sentence can make that , legally, the directors of establishments do not change anything ", he points out.

Currently, senators and deputies are working on a "right to enforce visits" in nursing homes.