“Does a private clinic have the right to refuse a patient on the pretext that he currently does not have a vaccination pass? “, Karin asks. A question shared by other readers. Western France he answers you.
No, Karine, a health facility, be it a hospital, a private clinic or a nursing home, cannot deny you the right of entry. And for good reason, the vaccination pass hasn’t been in effect since 1is August 2022 in health and medical-social institutions, in compliance with the law that puts an end to the exceptional regimes created to combat the Covid-19 epidemic. On the other hand, “However, testing may be ordered by medical and patient care teams to ensure the safety of their care”, the Ministry of Health answers.
The health pass was in fact necessary to go to health and medical-social facilities and nursing homes from mid-March 2022, both for patients and visitors. The use of the pass is no longer possible, since the health law was passed on July 26, which sanctions the end of the exceptional measures against Covid-19.
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Is it mandatory to wear a mask?
No, the mask is not mandatory. “However, those responsible for health facilities have the right to continue to enforce the use of masks inside buildings,” indicates the Public Service on its website.
Which establishments are affected? Hospitals; clinics; health centers; studies of medical professionals and psychologists, osteopaths, chiropractors and psychotherapists; pharmacies; medical analysis laboratories; nursing homes and homes for the elderly or disabled who receive assistance.
While France has entered the eighth epidemic wave of Covid-19, the mask remains, despite everything, strongly recommended in closed places. Brigitte Autran, chairman of the Health Risk Monitoring and Anticipation Committee (Covars), who took over from the scientific council, strongly recommended wearing a mask “as soon as we find ourselves in an environment where social distancing is not respected”specifying that Covars – like its counterparts in other European countries or in the United States for example – was considering the issue of restoring the obligation to wear a mask. “Today no one has reintroduced the obligation of the mask but everyone is studying it”, said October 4th onwards RMC .
More recently, on Wednesday 12 October, the government launched a new call “Vigilance” in front of “rebirth” of the epidemic, inviting suitable people to be vaccinated and to wear a mask in situations of potential contamination.
