In the legislative texts, the absent subjects sometimes count as much as those which appear there. Obligation to vaccinate caregivers, health pass at the entrance to health establishments, wearing a mask is compulsory… Several rules applied in hospitals are part of the latest restrictions authorized on the territory to fight against the Covid-19 epidemic. However, these are the ones that do not appear in the text examined in Parliament on the devices intended to continue after the end of the state of health emergency, scheduled for July 31. This law project “now temporarily maintaining a monitoring and health safety system in the fight against Covid-19” is discussed, in public session, from Monday, July 11, in the National Assembly, as part of an accelerated procedure.
Time is running out for the executive. “As of 1is August, the government will no longer be able to take coercive measures authorized by the regime for exiting the state of health emergency, in the event of a particularly marked epidemic resumption”assured the deputy (Renaissance) Sacha Houlié, in the law commission, Wednesday, July 6, citing “the use of the vaccination pass, the gauges or the obligation to wear a mask”.
For the future, this very brief bill provides for the continuation of only two measures, one relating to the extension of information and monitoring systems on the epidemic, the other, the possibility of reestablishing controls trips “to or from” French territory, Corsica or one of the overseas collectivities, until January 31, 2023. “We are entering an era where we are moving beyond constraints, to move towards everyone’s responsibility”assumes Caroline Abadie (Renaissance), deputy of the 8e constituency of Isère and rapporteur of this text “very picked up”. “We have all seen the general fed up on the territory, after two and a half years of epidemic, we have to make this bet. »
What about the hospital? At a time when a seventh epidemic wave is progressing, with establishments in high tension due to an unprecedented crisis linked to a shortage of staff, the question of the obligation to vaccinate caregivers has emerged in the questions of many deputies. . In the front row, those of La France insoumise (LFI), standing up against this obligation, as well as those of the National Rally (RN), as well as certain right-wing or ultramarine elected officials, who challenged the new Minister of Health, François Braun, auditioned Wednesday in committee.
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