Non-vaccinated caregivers of Guadeloupe refuse government’s proposals to settle crisis

Unions of personnel and collective caregivers rejected the exit from the crisis proposed by the Overseas Ministry. They are 221 caregivers to be concerned, a figure that weighs on the functioning of the Guadeloupe health system.

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He received an end of non-reception: dispatched to Guadeloupe to negotiate with the “suspended”, these non -vacinated caregivers excluded from their post without salary for more than a year, the director of the office of the Minister Delegate for Overseas, on Friday October 14, that he had failed to fulfill his mission.

Staff and collective unions of “suspended” rejected the “exit of the crisis” suggested by Joël Mathurin. According to the ministry, 221 caregivers identified by the Regional Health Agency were concerned, 93 of whom worked at the CHU in Guadeloupe – they would be 160 at the hospital in Martinique, a hundred hospital and liberals in Guyana. In Pointe-à-Pitre, the firm of Jean-François Carenco proposed an “exceptional starting plan”, by means of conventional ruptures increased. He offered to multiply by three the starting allowances, “at 40,000 euros minimum”, to consider “conversions”. Pre -retites, derogatory, were also on the table.

But staff stick to a requirement, their reintegration, with regular PCR tests and respect for barriers. With 50 % of the population and 80 % of vaccinated caregivers (compared to 85 % and 99 % respectively in France), Guadeloupe, such as Martinique and Guyana, displays its high specificity. In the department, firefighters, not 60 %, still work, as part of a strict health protocol. 2> “A disaster of misunderstanding”

The COVVI-19 and the vaccination issue were at the heart of the violent demonstrations that rocked the island, in November 2021. Against the background of a social crisis, the health subject also weighed a lot in the exceptional scores produced by France Insoumise (LFI) and the national rally in overseas in the last presidential and legislative elections. “This problem is a strong political marker. Overseas, no deputy for the presidential majority has been elected, the government can ignore this political distrust,” recalls the deputy (freedoms, independents, overseas and territories) Olivier Serva who, counting liberal nurses and the medico-social sector, evokes 1,500 people concerned in Guadeloupe.

Minister Jean-François Carenco had repeated before the law committee of the National Assembly, on September 28, to want to “build a solution”. “We are talking about less than 200 people if we only take employees. It is not a disaster, but it is a disaster of misunderstanding on both sides,” he admitted. The fact remains that all health authorities – Scientific Council, High Authority for Health, Academy of Medicine – have so far refused that caregivers derogate from the vaccination obligation. The “suspended” would be 2,000 to 3,000 at the national level.

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