Insults, insults, threats and sometimes physical attacks, the doctors of the University Hospital Center of Martinique can no longer bear the climate of violence that affects their professions. Consequences, several practitioners wish to leave while others give up coming to practice on the island. This Thursday, March 24, the violence against the staff of the CHU of Fort-de-France has reached a new level.
The facts are incredibly violent. While Jérôme le Brière, the new director of the Martinique University Hospital, officially met with the trade unions against the backdrop of a challenge to the vaccination obligation and the health pass, around thirty demonstrators came to disrupt the meeting.
During an altercation, six security guards were sprayed in the face with caustic soda. Although they were immediately taken to the emergency room, it is feared that their visual acuity is impaired. Legal action is underway.
” It is no longer tolerable that a tiny minority continues through its permanent actions, to weigh down a deleterious climate on Martinican hospitals. “wrote Jérôme Viguier, director general of the ARS of Martinique and Jérôme Le Brière, in a press release.
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” Our union obviously condemns this act “, for her part reacted Magalie Zamor, general secretary of the CGTM-Santé, member of the inter-union health, on the antenna of the local radio RCI. ” This shouldn’t happen in a workplace. The CHSCT has been seized “, she adds.
Overseas Minister Sébastien Lecornu and Health Minister Olivier Véran denounce an attack “ cowardly and violent “. Their message is firm, it is no longer tolerable that a tiny minority continues by its violent actions to weigh down a deleterious climate on Martinique hospitals. All this on the pretext of compulsory vaccination.