Not vaccinated against Covid: 65 carers and hospital staff ask Lyon administrative court to lift suspension

A collective sense of anger and indignation took hold of the Administrative Court of Lyon on Wednesday, May 31, where seventy-five hospital staff from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region requested the lifting of the professional suspension that their institutions decided to end at the end of 2021. Due to refusal of vaccination against Kovid-19.

“After being applauded for fighting the epidemic, we were thrown away like dirt. From one day to the next, we had no job, no status. It’s a very violent thing.” Maud Werscher-Fausch, 50, spokeswoman for the Loire Hospital Personnel Protection Association (ADPH 42), a medical secretary at Roan Hospital Center, testified. Like him, about fifteen health professionals attended the legal hearing itself.

“as punishment”

After the Minister’s instruction of May 2, followed by the decree of May 15, which allowed the reinstatement of unvaccinated hospital staff in the institutions where they worked, some began to appeal for revocation and thereby seek to restore salaries, pension points. Their professional age during the period under consideration, which may vary from one to twenty months, as the case may be.

Some have been infected with Covid and the resulting immunity has allowed them to get a vaccination pass. Others experienced longer suspensions, such as 42-year-old Ariana, who clocked twenty months. “I experienced it as a punishment” says a nurse’s assistant who recently returned to her post at Fores Hospital (Loire). RSA period and temporary work in kindergarten. “I’m up to date on all my other vaccines, I’m not anti-vax at all, but I didn’t want to take any risks with a trial product. I made my decision, even if life was very difficult. “ confides to a single mother who prefers not to be named.

The feeling of exclusion after years of career, the feeling of misunderstanding when their position was far from society, the difficulty of asserting one’s position in the face of hostile directions…: laid-off employees share the hope of a favorable decision. “Take a new course”As Sylvia Coroforo, 52, administrative secretary of the Villefranche-sur-Saône (Rhône) hospital for eighteen years, remains on disability and does not know if she will return to the health sector. “I spend nights thinking about what I will become, I don’t want to tell myself that they won.” he says.