The AP-HP and the ARS reject all accusations of “logging” “Yellow Vests” in Parisian hospitals, while an activist has announced his intention to file a complaint against X.
Sébastien Maillet, 30, was operated on at the Georges-Pompidou hospital on February 9 after having had his hand torn off by a grenade during a demonstration of “Yellow Vests”. Convinced that the hospitals of Paris file the militants of the movement in secret, he recently let it be known through the voice of his lawyer that he was going to file a complaint against X for “unlawful collection of personal data” and “breach of professional secrecy”.
According to Le Canard Enchaîné, hospitals in Paris would classify the names of people injured in the demonstrations of “Yellow Vests” in a file called “SI-VIC” (information system for the monitoring of victims) and created after the attacks of 2015 to facilitate the identification of victims of attacks. But for Sébastien Maillet, the use of this file would have been diverted with “the objective of creating a list of activists”.
“A health regulation and information tool”
Heavy accusations that the Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP) and the Regional Health Agency (ARS) of Ile-de-France have refuted in a joint statement entitled “clarification of an alleged ‘carding’ of patients”. “SI-VIC is a national system, managed by the Ministry of Health, which aims to help health authorities anticipate the number of injured from an event and its consequences for the organization of hospitals (for example for organize the operating theater teams)” and manage the “regulation of the flow of wounded”, explain the AP-HP and the ARS.
The information contained in this file is the AP-HP identification number, the patient’s sex, date of birth / age group, surname and first name, nationality, address and data relating to hospitalization (time of arrival, site, status: return home, death, hospitalization, etc.) and, where applicable, the person to contact. “In respect of medical secrecy, it does not contain any medical data, that is to say any data on the nature of the injuries treated”. The authors add that the SI-VIC is a “health regulation and information tool”, which “played its role in a period when any error in the care of patients would have been an element of reinforcement of violence” .
The press release also presents SINUS, “another national system managed and triggered by the Ministry of the Interior (Prefect of Police in Paris). (…) SINUS does not include any medical data, not even the type of hospital service in which the patient is covered but only the marital status, the state of seriousness (absolute emergency, relative urgency) the place of care and the hospital of destination.In the event of an event giving rise to the opening simultaneous operation of SINUS and SI-VIC, the CNIL authorized the two devices to share information on the identity, the place of care and the reception hospital of the victims, which has never happened in the framework of the Yellow Vests events”.
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