Guadeloupe: a rally to denounce climate of “terror” against CHU staff

Tuesday, the director of the establishment and his two deputies had to be exfiltrated by the police of their offices besieged by militants against the immunization obligation.

Le Monde with AFP

Hundreds of people participated on Saturday, January 8, Guadeloupe to a Citizen Rally to say “Stop” to the violence against the island’s hospital staff, on the background of crisis around the immunization obligation, found A journalist from the France-Press agency (AFP).

During this event organized by a citizen collective at the acting memorial, caregivers came to testify to a climate “of terror” at the University Hospital (CHU) and lamented the widespread climate of misinformation around the health crisis.

“The hospital must be released, we refuse terror,” Hammered Serge Romana, Guadeloupe Geneticist, officiating in Paris, but present at the gathering under the applause of the crowd.

Tuesday, the director of Guadeloupe Gérard Cotellon and his two deputies had to be exfiltrated by the police of their offices besieged by militants against the vaccine obligation.

“Cotellon is attacked because he is competent but especially because he is” Neg Gwadloup “[Guadeloupe de strain]”, said Romana reminiscent of the trial by the opponents of the immunization obligations To the director of the CHU, who, according to them, applies the “laws of the colonial state”.

“Syndés’ methods reported

Teachers or former trade unionists have also denounced “trade union methods” of ethics in all public services, particularly at CHU, “occupied since November 15 by staff affiliated with the Branch of the Sété d’union UGTG ( General Union of Guadeloupe workers).

“Frankly, it feels good to see that people start talking publicly around this permanent pressure to come to work and this feeling of never being free and comfortable at work,” said Dr. Tania Foucan , legalist medical examine.

A little further, the collective against the immunization obligation had also mobilized, attempting to join the Memorial and supervised by some members of the police. “They leave us without pay, unemployed, we will not let them go,” said AFP Gaby Keyboard, former Secretary-General of the GTTG Health Branch with reference to the suspensions related to the refusal of the caregiver to be done vaccinate.

In Guadeloupe, the fifth wave trained between Monday and Friday more than 7000 contaminations. The Omicron variant of SARS-COV-2 represents 100% of the sampling and pressure on the SAMU and intensive care entries accelerate, according to an epidemiological bulletin of the Regional Health Agency and the Prefecture. In this context, the curfew decreed between 22 hours and 5 hours will be advanced from Monday at 8 pm, announced the prefecture.

/Media reports.