Gabriel Attal, the government spokesperson, had clarified on August 6: the first week of application of the health pass, from the 9th, would be “a week of lapping and tolerance“.
A situation that is true in hospitals. In front of the entrance to the Necker hospital in Paris, a breathless thirty-something quickly justifies himself to the security agents; he forgot his phone. Reply: “Go ahead, but from August 16 it’s zero tolerance!“” We still let it pass, but some complain or insult us when we tell them that this will no longer be the case next week, “said the security guard in the fluorescent yellow vest.” They tell me: “What are you going to do? Prevent me from treating myself? ”Adds his colleague. What do you want to say to that? “So the two men are worried about the days to come, when more firmness is required.
This afternoon of August 12, everything is going without a hitch. Stéphanie, who came to see her nephew hospitalized this weekend, showed her pass on the TousAnti Covid application, “the matter of three seconds”. Amadou, who leaves a meeting, has him a paper version, neatly stored in a pocket. The father of the family finds it “normal” to present the document. After all, “I have been asked many more for the appointment with the doctor.”
At the Institut Curie, which welcomes cancer patients, some are “relieved” of the control at the entrance to limit the risk of contamination. The three guards sometimes help to download the QR code and do pedagogy. “People are already distressed by the disease, you have to be reassuring, explains one of them. In 99% of cases, it goes well.” Here as in Necker, the security guards are employed by private companies, and their calm impresses in the face of anger and anxious people.
In rare cases, if they deem it necessary, the doctors of the Institute can issue a certificate to dispense a health pass at the entrance. “I refuse that the patients followed lose chances. We have also set up care and certain chemotherapy at home since the start of the epidemic”, recalls Professor Pierre Fumoleau, head of the whole hospital.
With 85% of cancer patients vaccinated, according to a survey by the National Cancer Institute, the problem comes more from visitors than from patients. A fifty-something, cigarette in his mouth in front of the “no smoking” sign, apologizes after losing his temper. “It is not the fault of the guards, they are only cogs of the dictatorship,” he said before a fiery monologue against the government and the media. “He came to accompany his wife for an exam, but they don’t have a health pass, so the lady was asked to go for an antigen test at the pharmacy at the end of the street,” the agent said soberly. security. He screamed and tried to force his way through. “
His wife, antigen test in her pocket, was able to attend her examination. After a second altercation with the security guard cut like a Norman wardrobe, her husband is waiting for her in the car. “We never refuse access to care, but we have restricted visits and support, recognizes Pierre Fumoleau. Obviously, we adapt to children and patients at the end of life. It is a permanent compromise between tolerance. and laxity. “
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