A”Committee on Health Risk Monitoring and Prediction“The scientific council will follow and will consist of 19 members, created by the decree published on Sunday in the Official Journal, where the new health law is published. The names of its members will bereported in the next few days“, the office of Health Minister Francois Brown told AFP. It is possible that some members of the scientific council, whose mission ends on Sunday with the end of the health emergency, are part of it.
This committee, which is responsible for monitoringhealth risks related to infectious agents affecting humans and animals, environmental and food pollutants, and climate change“In particular, it shouldmake recommendations when screening reveals a health hazard“. He will also have a missionpresents recommendations on the measures planned by the state bodies to combat the health crisis“and”if necessary, about the strategy of vaccinations carried out in the conditions of a threat to health“, according to the decree. Created with the Ministers of Health and Research, it can be seized by one of them or taken over by itself. His opinions will be published.
A committee of 19 members
This committee will be chaired by a qualified person appointed by the Ministers for Health and Research and will be made up of “16 scientific person or healthcare specialist, patient representative, citizen representative“. “In case of a health crisis“, its president will be able to”propose to invite additional persons for their special examination“. Committee members will be appointedfor two years, renewable once“.
The Minister of Health said on Franceinfo on Wednesday that the commission will be “a bit of a commando team of very high level scientists“. His missions will go beyond the borders of Covid, Francois Brown emphasized. “We will have new tools, but we will be surprised by a new virus that will have different properties.“Jean-Francois Delfrassi, the president of the Scientific Council, judged in an interview on Paris Sunday. with “human, animal and environmental health professionals“The commission will allow.”a broader approach“, he added.
In addition, after the end of the emergency health measures related to Covid-19, the wearing of a mask can be imposed by the responsible person in hospitals, medical-social and care facilities, as well as in pharmacies and medical biology laboratories. the structure, for people over six years old, according to the decision of the PB. Several hospitals have chosen to make the mask mandatory, such as the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) or the CHUs of Bordeaux and Nice. The health ministry told AFP on Thursday that wearing masks remained “very highly recommendeduntil further notice: A group of patients, caregivers and scientists called for the mask to remain mandatory in hospitals after July 31, in a column published in L’Express on Friday.
Source: Le Figaro
