A former doctor from La Londe, near Elbeuf, is now banned from practicing his profession for a period of three years for failure to comply with "vaccine obligations" on an 11-month-old child.
According to information from Paris-Normandy, a general practitioner from La Londe, near Elbeuf, in Normandy, was sanctioned by the Norman disciplinary chamber of the Order of Physicians for breaches of compliance with "vaccine obligations" in the decision in charge of a child. Thus, it is forbidden to practice one's profession for a period of three years.
It all started in February 2019, a pediatrician from Rouen University Hospital noted that this child had not received any mandatory vaccines during a medical visit. The parents of the 11-month-old girl presented a medical certificate of general contraindication to vaccinations, issued by another doctor, three weeks earlier. The healthcare professional reports the information by letter to the Departmental Council of the Order of Physicians as well as to the unit for collecting information of concern (Crip).
An inappropriate certificate
For his part, the doctor mentions “Possible accidents (in case of vaccination) and not referenced, for which I refuse to take responsibility. This child is free from contagious disease and able to live in a community. ” In his thesis, he indicates that he regularly faces opposition from parents regarding vaccination, especially after the extension to 11 vaccines since 2018.
He therefore contraindicated hepatitis B vaccination because of two family histories:
- Neuropathy in mother's family after vaccine
- multiple sclerosis in a paternal uncle
Nevertheless, the departmental chamber of the Order of Physicians believes that the general practitioner would have "potentially endangering the child as well as those around him" with this certificate "to say the least inappropriate". Indeed, this contraindication should have only affected hepatitis B and not all vaccines.
In fact, vaccinations against diphtheria, tetanus, polio, whooping cough, infection with Haemophilus influenzae b, hepatitis B, meningococcus C, pneumococcus, measles, mumps and rubella are mandatory in patients. infants.
In its decision of March 12, the disciplinary chamber of the Order considers that the practitioner had committed "several faulty breaches consisting of an attitude of non-compliance with vaccine obligations" with a precaution "taken to the extreme".