The caregivers are tired of the climate of “terror” that reigns at the University Hospital of Guadeloupe. Several hundred people took part in a citizens’ rally on Saturday to say “stop” to violence once morest hospital staff on the island, once morest the backdrop of the crisis surrounding compulsory vaccination.
Tuesday, the director of the CHU Gérard Cotellon and his two assistants had to be exfiltrated by the police from their offices besieged by militants once morest the vaccine obligation. “Cotellon is attacked because he is competent but above all because he is” neg gwadloup “(native Guadeloupe),” said Serge Romana. This Guadeloupean geneticist, officiating in Paris but present at the rally, recalled the treacherous lawsuit made by opponents of the vaccine obligation to the director of the CHU, who, according to them, applies the “laws of the colonial state”.
A counter-demonstration
During this demonstration organized by a citizen collective at the Memorial ACTe, teachers or former trade unionists also denounced trade union “methods” which lack “ethics in all public services, especially at the CHU”, occupied since November 15 by staff affiliated to the health branch of the UGTG union (General Union of Workers of Guadeloupe). “Frankly, it’s good to see that people are starting to speak publicly around this permanent pressure to come to work and this feeling of never being free and comfortable at work”, underlined Doctor Tania Foucan, forensic pathologist. .
A little further, the collective once morest the vaccine obligation was also mobilized, supervised by some members of the police. “They leave us without pay, without a job, we will not let go,” said Gaby Clavier, former secretary general of the health branch of the UGTG, in reference to the suspensions linked to the refusal of nursing staff to be vaccinated.
In Guadeloupe, the fifth wave caused between Monday and Friday more than 7,000 contaminations. The Omicron variant represents 100% of samples and the pressure on the SAMU and intensive care admissions is accelerating, according to an epidemiological bulletin from the Regional Health Agency and the prefecture. In this context, the curfew decreed between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. will be brought forward from Monday at 8 p.m., announced the prefecture.
