Responding to one of the requests made by those contesting the vaccination obligation, the government has undertaken to provide vaccines against the coronavirus without messenger RNA to caregivers in Guadeloupe who so desire, indicated the Minister of Outremers, Sébastien Lecornu, this Tuesday.
The protest against the vaccination obligation of carers and firefighters started on November 15 has turned into a social crisis punctuated by violence in Guadeloupe, where a third of the population lives below the poverty line according to INSEE.
Mostly Pfizer so far
With caregivers, “we are also in a social dialogue between the employer, the Ministry of Health and Solidarity, and its employees to find solutions”, so “we committed last night to find other types. vaccines “for those who refuse messenger RNA vaccines, said Sébastien Lecornu on France 2. The vaccines available so far in Guadeloupe were” mainly vaccines “Pfizer / BioNtech, said the Ministry of Overseas Territories.
“For those who refuse to be vaccinated and prefer to abandon their quality of caregivers and are already asking for a professional retraining, we will support them and there we will need the regional council, so Ary Chalus [président du conseil régional de Guadeloupe] will be mobilized on these subjects, ”added Sébastien Lecornu.
Scandalous not to apply the law in Guadeloupe
On Monday, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced the creation of a “forum for dialogue” in order to “convince and support individually, humanely”, the professionals concerned by the vaccine obligation, in an attempt to calm the conflagration.
For the Minister of Outremers, “there would be something scandalous in not applying the law of the Republic on the vaccination obligation of caregivers and firefighters in Guadeloupe”. According to him, 87% of caregivers and 43% of firefighters are vaccinated.