The Guadeloupe continued Thursday to see its roads, just like access to the CHU, blocked by protesters.
Le Monde with AFP
Tensions lost in Guadeloupe on the fourth day of mobilization to protest the health care and the immunization obligation of caregivers. Caribbean Island continued, Thursday, November 18, to see its roads, like access to the CHU, blocked by protesters.
On the dams, which rise or strengthened according to the places, voices rise to dispute the method of mobilization launched by a collective of trade union organizations and citizens. “I could not rally my place of work,” says Dr. Tania Foucan, doctor at the Guadeloupe University Hospital. “I do not know who will manage my consultations this morning,” she wrote on social networks.
“Complicated situation at the CHU”
shortly before 6 hours, local time (11 hours, hour of Paris), the road in front of the chu of Guadeloupe was blocked in both directions by tires erected into a barrier held by a “thirty protesters, most cagolds” , noted a videographer of the France-Presse agency. The barrier was several times dismantled by the police and raised by the protesters before being inflamed on one of the two axes. The fire was then off, the road was unlocked and traffic has resumed. However, on the bu strike picket, the only vehicles allowed to enter are ambulances. “Some of our patients need to go on foot, even those of coronary pathologies,” says Dr. Foucan.
“The situation is complicated to the Guadeloupe CHU. The dams, suspensions, sick leave but also blockage and manifestations in front of the hospital, etc., disrupt the proper course of care (…) Chemotherapy for example could not be administered today. Doctors can not rally their position, “says Cédric Zolezzi, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Guadeloupe. “There is filtering at the entrance, especially for the internal, some of which are prevented from passing. One of them has even been attacked by a caddy person,” says Zolezzi who declares that “he there is no possible dialogue “.
The rector of academic region, Christine Goff-Ziegler, also sentenced Thursday in a statement “all the acts of vandalism and obstacles to traffic” or “to the access of institutions”, whose students ” are the first victims “.
” People need to work “
On the other roads, including in the small roads of the large bottoms, in the Guadeloupean campaign, dams block the passage. Many of them have been dismantled, “by residents or motorists,” said Steve Salim, a contractor specializing in the agricultural short circuits. “There are many roads where there is no one on the dams”, does it tell.
The entrepreneur, who crisscross the island to ensure the delivery of its baskets of vegetables, could not work normally today: “It’s a big loss, sixty baskets stay on my arms. But I also have several pallets of baskets who have to leave in Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthelemy: the refrigerated truck can not take small roads. “It castigates the blockages while” people need to work after these pandemic months “.
In a statement, the Union of Business-Medef “firmly condemns obstacles to freedom to circulate”. “Where are we going to? What is the legitimacy of those who prohibit access to care?”, Questioned the employers’ organization. “After months of restrictive measures for our population and for the country’s economy, it is unacceptable to let this spiral of self-destruction prosper,” she added, feeling that companies, in which the general strike Called by the unions is not very followed, are still paralyzed by the blockages.
In addition, the COVID epidemic resumes slightly in Guadeloupe, although “the situation remains stable at the hospital level”, according to a statement of the prefecture, with a rate of positivity to 1.5%. “Respect for personal and collective protection measures is imperative,” recalls the release.