Bedbugs: treatment costs, obligation to declare… a bill should soon see the light of day

Cinemas, transport, schools, hospitals… Reports of bedbug infestations in public spaces have been increasing for several weeks, creating a general panic.

A problem that the government and political parties seem to (finally) face head on. During the press conference held on Tuesday 3 October, Sylvain Maillardannounced the president of the Renaissance group at the National Assembly “a priority”. The party will then present a bill on the topic, as part of its parliamentary niche, scheduled for December 4.

According to the Minister of Health, France “is not invaded”

If the details of this bill have not been presented, the main lines have been mentioned. If the cost of treatment is included in the bill (a disinfestation protocol can cost up to several thousand euros), “ the first theme concerns the census of the phenomenon », declared the deputy Rinascimento Bruno Studer who spoke after Sylvain Maillard.

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According to him, France has no tools to monitor what is becoming a public health problem “.” We don’t know if there are more bedbugs than in 2019.”, he said. One of the ways, according to him, lies in a possible obligation to declare “for companies that carry out treatments “.

A speech that corroborates that of the Minister of Health François Braunwho, on the same day, called for calm on the airwaves of FranceInter, considering that the situation does not justify” general panic “, and that France is not” not invaded “.

For his part, the Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne announced that a meeting between ministries is scheduled in the next few days to combat these parasites. It will take place on Friday 6 October.