In a column, political figures, associative representatives and citizens criticize “the extreme slowness of start-up” and the “sub-dianting” of the vaccination campaign.
Le Monde
They judge the action of the government “insufficient”. Political figures, associative representatives and citizens ask, in a Tribune published Tuesday August 2 in the HuffPost , the creation of a Senatorial Inquiry Commission on the action of The executive in the fight against the variola of the monkey, as was the case in 2020 on the management of the COVVI-19 health crisis.
The signatories criticize “the extreme slowness of start-up” and the “sub-dianting” of the vaccination campaign, as well as “the absence of transparent information” on the “number of available vaccines” or ” orders to come “.
Among the authors of the gallery are the deputies of the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union Sandrine Rousseau (Europe Ecologie-les Verts, EELV) and Danielle Simonnet (La France Insoumise), the first assistant to the town hall of Marseille, Michèle Rubirola (EELV), Presidents of Aid Associations, Act-Up Paris and Doctors of the World. They ask senators to build a commission of inquiry, as was the case in 2020 on the management of the COVVI-19 health crisis.
According to the latest public health assessment France, published on Friday, 1,955 confirmed cases have been identified in France since May 20, when a first case was detected on the national territory. Faced with this outbreak of cases, more than 42,000 doses of smallpox vaccine have been destined and vaccination has been extended to the most at risk: men with sex with one or more men, trans people with Multiple sexual partners, sex workers and professionals working in places of sexual consumption.
However, the “available slots remain too insufficient in number everywhere on the national territory”, judge the authors of the gallery, who ask parliamentarians to “put an end to the secrecy on the government strategy” in order to “assess quality of this strategy “.
The Minister of Health promises” to accentuate “the mobilization
To respond to criticism, the Minister of Health, François Braun, had assured at the end of July that France was “not late” and stated that the stock of vaccines against the smallpox was “very substantial”. However, he had refused to specify the magnitude, pleading the “Secret-Defense”, because the smallpox can serve as a biological weapon. Monday, after a meeting with the Aid association, the Minister a promised on Twitter that” mobilization throughout the continuous territory [a] to be increased “.
a Sandrine Rousseau, who asked Tuesday if “only the political will [Ait]”, François Braun notably opposed, during questions to the government, the “136 open vaccination centers” and the “more than 14,000 vaccinated “. After the center of “Large Capacity” opened last week in Paris, “a similar center will open very soon in Marseille,” said the minister. “To reduce the time of access to vaccines, especially in areas where the request is high as in PACA and in Ile-de-France”, he also said it worked to “an experiment with pharmacists”.