2023-06-23 16:26:10
These caregivers who had refused to be vaccinated invaded the forecourt of the Regional Health Agency and a mayors’ lounge on Thursday to claim the right to compensation for their suspension.
Former Guadeloupe caregivers suspended for refusing the Covid-19 vaccine invaded the forecourt of the Regional Health Agency (ARS) and a mayors’ lounge on Thursday to claim the right to compensation for their suspension.
“The Collective of Organizations in Struggle continues to demand compensation for all these salaried and liberal professionals, the reintegration and rehabilitation of public and private contract professionals,” said Thursday Maïté Hubert M’Toumo, secretary general of the General Union. workers of Guadeloupe (UGTG), a union very mobilized around the refusal of the vaccination obligation during the Covid pandemic.
According to a statement from the UGTG, a group of “a hundred” activists settled in front of the premises of the ARS, before going to a mayors’ fair organized in the industrial and economic zone of Jarry on Thursday and Friday.
“Some have been prevented in their lives for several months, so we will prevent the functioning of institutions until we win,” warned Gaby Clavier, trade unionist for the health branch of the UGTG.
They left the scene following being able to speak.
2 major crises in Guadeloupe during the pandemic
“We received them, they were able to speak, but I refused to allow them to engage in a debate on the subject with the elected officials present, as they had intended”, told our colleagues from AFP Jocelyn Sapotille, President of the Association of Mayors of Guadeloupe.
“We are not competent to settle this question but if we can relay certain requests, we will do so,” he added.
The refusal of the injection led to two major crises in Guadeloupe. During the fourth wave, which was very deadly locally, the CHU had to call in numerous reinforcements to withstand the shock. Then the vaccination obligation imposed on certain professions led to several weeks of urban riots, at the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022.
An Interministerial Committee for Overseas Territories on July 3
Caregivers who refused to comply with the law were able to be reinstated in mid-May, following some had been suspended for 19 months. According to figures from the ARS established at the beginning of 2023, 250 people were concerned in the archipelago.
The social crisis has highlighted a fed up in the population in the face of many local dysfunctions, in particular public services, forcing elected officials to rethink the management of the territory, but also its institutional organization.
Most of the work must be presented to the government on July 3, within the framework of the Interministerial Committee for Overseas Territories.
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