The College also considers continuing to encourage the population to be vaccinated as quickly as possible and claims the place of general medicine in this vaccination.
Lhe College of General Medicine, which represents all French-speaking general practitioners, regrets Tuesday in a press release “pressure” exerted on the population in the event of refusal of the AstraZeneca vaccine, insofar as people who refuse this vaccine would not see themselves. most invited as part of the current campaign.
While several countries have suspended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine, at the center of concern after cases of thromboembolic events were reported, without a proven link at this stage, the vaccination taskforce justified the continuation of the vaccination on Saturday. with this vaccine in Belgium. “From a scientific point of view, this decision is consistent with the current state of knowledge,” underlines the College of General Medicine.
However, the taskforce indicated that if the AstraZeneca vaccine was refused, the citizen would no longer receive a new invitation and could no longer benefit from the vaccination as part of the campaign. “This statement is unacceptable in the first sense of the term: it goes against the fundamental principle of the right to care,” said the College of General Medicine.
Insofar as vaccination against Covid-19 is not compulsory in Belgium, “we believe that a citizen has every right to temporarily refuse to be vaccinated, for whatever reason, without being you might as well lose your right to receive the vaccine as part of the campaign. This ‘now or never’ philosophy is a form of violent and unacceptable pressure. We hope that this will only remain an awkwardness which will be corrected quickly ”.
The College also says it continues to encourage the population to be vaccinated as quickly as possible and claims the place of general medicine in this vaccination.