In this pre-holiday period, doctors no longer know where to turn. Not to pack their bags, but to take a stand on health issues that trouble society.
There are those who sign petitions to defend the opinion of the ethics committee in favor of the opening of PMA to all women, and others who affix their initials to support the Minister of Health. At the risk of appearing as professionals of the petition, some defend both causes with the same conviction.
Two hundred big names in hospital medicine and eminent public health officials have therefore chosen The Parisian to come out in favor of extending compulsory vaccination to 11 pathologies. On June 16, in this same daily, Agnès Buzyn considered this hypothesis. According to information collected by Why doctor, the minister has confirmed in recent days to several interlocutors that a decision would be taken quickly in this direction.
“Here is finally a Minister of Health who defines a clear course”, explains in the columns of the newspaper one of the signatories, Pr François Chast, head of clinical pharmacy at the Hôtel-Dieu (Paris).
“But why would you want to step up to the plate on this most sensitive subject? asks journalist Marc Payet. “We are appalled to see that 41% of French people say they are wary of vaccination. It is urgent to fight the speeches of anti-science and anti-vaccination lobbies that play on fear. They demonstrate nothing, and rely on a few very rare side effects to discredit vaccines that save millions of lives, ”replies Professor Chast.
In their text, doctors insist on the resurgence of certain diseases. “Because the vaccines are well tolerated, they add, and because all the international studies have made it possible to invalidate the allegations of autoimmune, neurological or muscular diseases allegedly induced by the vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus, poliomyelitis, measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis, hepatitis B, pneumococcal, haemophilus influenzae, and meningococcal C infections”.
In this scientific plea, the signatories forget a detail. In terms of vaccination, doctors are far from being references, on vaccination against influenza in particular. Moreover, in the interview given to the ParisianAgnès Buzyn had pointed out to them!
Find the Health Guest with Pr Alain Fischer
aired on February 24, 2017
