Stéphanie Rist, the Minister of Health, came this Friday, December 26, 2025 to Lyon to meet the staff at the Edouard Herriot hospital center. She reminded that there is still time to get a flu shot.
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During a quick visit to the Edouard Herriot hospital in Lyon, Stéphanie Rist, the Minister of Health, recalled that the peak of the flu was near and encouraged the French to be vaccinated. In addition, she found the organization of caregivers in Lyon interesting in dealing with this.
The flu epidemic in Franceis about to arrive” at its peak, and “there is still time to get vaccinated“, repeated Minister of Health Stéphanie Rist. “We know the peak once we start to go down. We are not yet in the decline but in a high phase“, declared the minister, during a trip to the emergency room of the Edouard-Herriot hospital.
According to a report published Wednesday by the French Public Health agency, the flu epidemic continues to intensify in France but remains for the moment “moderate“.
The epidemic peak should be reached in the last week of 2025 (72.5% probability) otherwise during the first days of 2026 (22.5%), estimated the institute.
“We have a vaccination campaign which has increased by more than 17% compared to last year, so we are rather better vaccinated. But once again, I say it again, there is still time to get vaccinated”insisted Ms. Rist.
“We also know from experience that every year at the start of the school year, it will be January 5, when people come back from moving to different families or vacation spots, when they come back, we know that this figure can increase again.of people affected by the flu, warned the minister.
“We must not forget barrier gestures“, such as wearing a mask in case of symptoms and washing your hands thoroughly,”measures that all French people now know, but which are important to remember“, she added.
The minister spoke during a round table with healthcare staff and praised their organization. “The caregivers here in Lyon have an organization that makes it possible to increase internally the number of beds available during the winter period thanks to close work with emergency doctors. They also have a lot of work with community medicine, with the access to care service. There is also regional work, with the SAMU teams. underlined the minister.
“Here, we are in a big city, with a large emergency department, which allows us to welcome patients, but which also looks outside the hospital. And that’s what I find interesting, because that’s how we can respond to the demands of our fellow citizens.”
Asked about the requisition of doctors, the Minister of Health estimated that “this is not unusual. It can happen to allow our fellow citizens to be treated”. • © France 3 Rhône-Alpes
Asked about the requisition of doctors, as in Bouches-du-Rhône where 17 general practitioners were requisitioned by the prefecture from December 25 to January 4 to deal with winter epidemics and during periods of caregiver leave, the minister assured that “this is not unusual. This can happen to allow our fellow citizens to be treated.”
“There is no obligation on the part of community doctors to provide outpatient care, but there is a collective responsibility. So, I hope that it is not out of obligation, but rather work between professionals, to allow us to have on-call lists”she concluded.
Article written based on reporting elements by Sylvie Adam and Bénédicte Millaud.
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