The pace of vaccination against Covid-19 in France is widely criticized. Mayors or presidents of departmental councils of Burgundy offer their help to speed up operations.
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Several elected officials from Burgundy have spoken in recent hours to express their concern about the pace of vaccination against Covid-19 in our country. They are offering their help to speed things up.
“Every day lost for vaccination is a day lost for the revival of our economy and for the health of the French”, entrusted the PS mayor of Dijon François Rebsamen to our microphone this Tuesday, January 5.
“That decisions are taken at the global level, it seems quite normal to me. It is the framework that the State sets. But the communities are all at gunpoint, saying that they are ready to help. How can we do ?”
“I made proposals. I said, for example, that we could make rooms available to them, mass vaccination rooms, because we have to change the pace, he continued. If we want, we can do that in the Devosge room as we do for blood donations, for example, we can do that in the Zenith room, at the sports center. “
With many mayors of France, we say this fairly simple thing: the government forgets that there are local communities. He must rely on us.
“The slow start-up and the administrative complexity, far from reassuring, arouse a great lack of understanding which must be resolved as soon as possible. If we want to convince the French whose confidence is eroding, we must act, and quickly “, the mayor of Dijon indicated in a press release on Monday evening.
On behalf of the city of #Dijon and the metropolis, I informed the ARS of the possibility of immediately making premises available for the organization of #vaccination mass of the population: it can be the zenith, the Devosge room or the sports hall. pic.twitter.com/eMLmmRkBfR
– François Rebsamen (@frebsamen) January 4, 2021
“We can succeed in the complex operation of vaccination”
UDI president of the Côte-d’Or departmental council, François Sauvadet, also spoke in a press release. “This January 4, 2021, during the meeting of the operational unit [de coordination de la vaccination], the department of Côte-d’Or offered its assistance and resources to facilitate vaccination throughout the departmental territory “, he specifies.
The #CôtedOr is since the beginning of the #healthcrisis alongside the most fragile.
Today, the Department offered its assistance and resources to facilitate the #vaccination mostly
the territory.Find the press release ⬇https://t.co/9ISn3Rlc5U#Vaccine #COVID19
– François SAUVADET (@sauvadet) January 4, 2021
This assistance could take the form of:
- “logistical support for the transport of the vaccine, under the sanitary control of hospital laboratories and with technical assistance from the departmental laboratory of Côte-d’Or
- financial support for the establishment of vaccination centers in private, mutualist and associative EHPADs, those of hospital EHPADs being paid for by the Ministry of Health, as well as in establishments welcoming people with disabilities
- support for the establishment of vaccination centers in the municipalities, as close as possible to people identified as vulnerable. “
Together, State, department, municipalities and establishments welcoming the elderly and disabled, we can succeed in the complex operation of vaccination
Ludovic Rochette, president of the association of mayors of Côte-d’Or, does not say anything else. “The AMF21 is working alongside the municipalities to offer, as of now, health professionals suitable places so that they can carry out vaccinations as close as possible to their needs”, he says in a statement posted on his Twitter account.
As for the masks last spring, the state can count on the municipalities and mayors for the vaccination campaign to be successful. But time is running out. pic.twitter.com/UDTAvLg6da
– Ludovic Rochette (@LudovicRochette) January 4, 2021
The PS president of the Nièvre departmental council also calls for accelerating vaccination. “On December 20, I myself offered the services of the department to be able to vaccinate very quickly all the people who are in our nursing homes. That indeed seems to me to be a priority. Today, I have no answer, but I hope it will be done “, he explained to our microphone.
Minister promises to pick up the pace
While the criticisms are numerous, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran indicated a new acceleration of the tempo during a radio interview this Tuesday morning. “The cruising speed of vaccination” against Covid-19 in France will “join that of our neighbors in the coming days”, he promised.
“We exceeded 2,000 vaccinations yesterday. By Thursday we will increase again very significantly, we will be on an exponential curve”, declared the minister on RTL, assuring that France would “amplify, accelerate and simplify” its vaccination strategy.
The vaccination of people aged 75 and over who are not accommodated in nursing homes will be authorized before the end of January, the minister also announced. “That’s 5 million people”.
He also announced the extension of the vaccination campaign to firefighters and home helpers over 50, for the moment reserved for residents of nursing homes and caregivers of at least 50 years.
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