Martinique: CHU security officers seriously injured during a demonstration

The French Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, on August 12, 2021 at the Fort-de-France University Hospital (archive image).

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Insults, insults, threats and sometimes physical attacks, the doctors of the University Hospital Center of Martinique can no longer bear the climate of violence that affects their professions.

Consequences, several practitioners wish to leave while others give up coming to practice on the island.

This Thursday, March 24, the violence against the staff of the CHU of Fort-de-France has reached a new level.

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The facts are incredibly violent.

While Jérôme le Brière, the new director of the Martinique University Hospital, officially met with the trade unions against the backdrop of a challenge to the vaccination obligation and the health pass, around thirty demonstrators came to disrupt the meeting.

During an altercation, six security guards were sprayed in the face with caustic soda.

Although they were immediately taken to the emergency room, it is feared that their visual acuity is impaired.

Legal action is underway.

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 ", wrote Jérôme Viguier, director general of the ARS of Martinique and Jérôme Le Brière, in a communicated.

► Also to listen: 

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 ", reacted Magalie Zamor, general secretary of the CGTM-Santé, member of the inter-union health, on the antenna of the local radio RCI.

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, ”she adds.

Overseas Minister Sébastien Lecornu and Health Minister Olivier Véran denounce a "

" attack.

Their message is firm, it is no longer tolerable that a tiny minority continues by its violent actions to weigh down a deleterious climate on Martinique hospitals.

All this on the pretext of compulsory vaccination.

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