From Monday, August 9, the health pass will be compulsory in retirement homes, medico-social establishments and hospitals, but not in emergencies. Caregivers and directors of accommodation establishments for dependent elderly people (Ehpad) apprehend the application of the law – validated in almost all, Thursday, August 5, by the Constitutional Council.
Visitors – except in emergencies and for people at the end of their life – and scheduled patients will have to present a health pass, i.e. proof of vaccination, a virological test of less than 48 hours or a certificate of recovery following Covid-19 contamination, to access the establishment. The law also provides for a vaccination obligation for caregivers, who have until October 15 to present a complete vaccination schedule.
After weeks of closure of nursing homes during the health crisis followed by a chaotic return to normal, the directors will find themselves “Still accused of being the police”, worries Didier Sapy, Director General of the National Federation for the Future and Quality of Life of the Elderly, which brings together associative nursing homes. The sanitary sesame may cause tension. ” Now that’s enough !, indignant Claudette Brialix, president of the National Federation of associations and friends of the elderly and their families. We are not going to deprive very old people again of the last contact with theirs. Families and residents played along by getting vaccinated. Let’s build solutions together and stop imposing them from above! Either way, there is no such thing as zero risk. ”
“Who is going to finance? “
The control of the sanitary pass will require “Energy, time and human resources that establishments do not necessarily have in this summer period”, also notes Mr Sapy. Some have anticipated. “We are going to devote an employee to welcoming visitors. It will be full time and we will ask the regional health agency to cover this additional cost ”, predicts Eric-Angelo Bellini, director of the nursing home Les Rousselières in Pleumartin (Vienne). At the head of the Loos-Haubourdin hospital group (North), Séverine Laboue will recruit agents to control the entrances to the two nursing homes she heads. “They risk being overwhelmed, perhaps verbally assaulted, because we sometimes have rebellious visitors!” ” But, above all, Mme Laboue asks “Who is going to fund these positions and are we going to find volunteers?” “
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