While the controversy over the slowness of vaccination against Covid-19 in France continues, the Tours University Hospital is attacking the second phase with the vaccination of health personnel and the hospital.
“Vaccination has been organized since December 23 within the CHU with the first vaccines in nursing homes from December 28 »Indicates Marie-Noëlle Gerain Breuzard, the director of the CHU who estimates that by the end of the week we will reach between 750 and 1000 vaccinations in the department.
The Touraine hospital center is the hub for vaccination in the department, it is in fact here that the 9,700 doses of vaccines supplied for the department are stored and managed. These vaccines are those of the Pfizer brand, which the CHU then supplies to nursing homes or even to hospitals in Loches or Chinon. “This vaccine requires delicate travel conditions, which is why I remain vigilant about the idea of increasing and dispersing the places of vaccination” explains the director of the CHU with reference to the proposals of many mayors to open “vaccinodromes”, that is to say municipal rooms made available as vaccination centers. “The risk is that we have a consequent loss of a certain number of vaccines in transport. “
For the time being, vaccination for the general public is not yet topical, the director of the CHU and the hospital teams are focusing on the immediate and the vaccination of health professionals, a course defined by the government in this regard. beginning of the week.
The Tours University Hospital has opened three vaccination centers for the latter: one on the Trousseau site, one on the Bretonneau site and a final rue Jehan Fouquet in Tours for the staff of Clocheville but also for private health workers, doctors or nurses for example or even firefighters according to the latest government recommendations indicates Frédéric Patat, president of the Medical Commission of the Tours University Hospital.
Of the more than 9,000 employees of the Tours University Hospital, this vaccination phase will concern 2,500 people over the age of 50 or considered to be at risk. The latter are invited to make an appointment and go to one of the vaccination rooms at the three sites mentioned.
In these rooms, at least three people (one administrative, one doctor and one nurse) are present to welcome the volunteers (vaccination is not compulsory). An appointment takes 10 minutes during which the vaccinee will have to answer preliminary questions and then give his consent before moving on to the vaccination which requires two doses 21 days apart.
“We must repeat that it is important to be vaccinated, at the CHU alone, I remind you that we have around 500 professionals who have had the Covid” recalls Marie-Noëlle Gerain-Breuzard who during a press visit to these vaccination rooms wished to set an example.
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