Question 35078 — work accidents and occupational diseases

Summary

Ms. Fabienne Colboc draws the attention of the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the recognition of covid-19 as an occupational disease for all caregivers. On March 23, 2020, the Minister of Health declared: “For all these caregivers who fall ill, I say, the coronavirus will be automatically and systematically recognized as an occupational disease.” Decree No. 2020-1131 of September 14, 2020 relating to the recognition in occupational diseases of pathologies linked to SARS-CoV2 infection limits this recognition to caregivers who have been contaminated in the course of their work and “having required oxygen therapy or any other form of ventilatory assistance”. For caregivers who meet these two criteria, recognition as an occupational disease is automatic. However, this criterion very strongly restricts the number of caregivers contaminated by covid-19 affected by this automatic recognition. Some of them, although not having been on respiratory assistance, developed other serious forms of the virus. Others still have symptoms today. This situation leads to certain caregivers being refused recognition of the link between their illness and the exercise of work, including in cases of contamination. grouped within a health service. She would like to know the reasons which pushed it to restrict the scope of this automatic recognition of covid-19 as an occupational disease and calls on it to broaden it to meet the legitimate expectations of caregivers who have contracted the disease in the course of carrying out their work.

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