Hospital caregivers over the age of 50 or with comorbid disorders finally have access to the vaccine to fight Covid-19. Before the over 75s, from Monday.
Ten months after the start of the first confinement caused by Covid-19, the long-awaited antidote to fight the virus has finally arrived as far as Millau. Thursday morning, thirty members of the nursing staff of the hospital center over the age of fifty or with comorbid disorders (diabetes, hypertension, etc.), and thirty others this morning, thus received their first dose of vaccine, before the booster scheduled in three weeks.
To set an example, it was the director of Didier Bourdon hospital who received the first injection, shortly after nine o’clock, by Sébastien Combes, doctor in Saint-Georges-de-Luzençon and secretary general of the Council. of the order of doctors of Aveyron. Closely followed by his acting counterpart Lucil-Atumma Modebelu, younger but also concerned by this first wave.
For this, the vaccines from Pfizer and BioNTech laboratories at ARN Messager arrived Tuesday from Montpellier and have since been kept at the central pharmacy of the hospital.
“We are ready and we are not guinea pigs, everyone here believes that it is necessary and useful to be vaccinated for the health of the population “, declared at the end of the injection the person in charge of the hospital, asked like all the others to wait fifteen minutes in his chair before resuming a normal activity.
He is one of the 250 priority agents to be able to be vaccinated out of the 700 in the hospital and of which 10% in total have already made an appointment, a “strong adherence“in the words of Didier Bourdon. Without forgetting the home helpers intervening outside, also integrated into the system.
Over 75s
concerned from Monday
In the waiting room next door, a nurse waits confidently for the injection of the precious serum. “I did not hesitate to come to be vaccinated. If we want to find freedom, it seems to me that we have to go through it. I have no particular apprehension.”
In the vaccination room, usually used for surveillance advice, two vaccination “lines” comprising five spaces each, are occupied by two doctors and two nurses. In order to function, the hospital center can count on the reinforced collaboration between the hospital and the city medicine, called upon with the liberal nurses.
“Hospital logistics are essential to be able to set up a center in such a short time. In one week, everything had to be done to help the hospital and for the next three weeks, the staff schedule is already established “, says Sébastien Combes of the Council of the Order of Physicians, in discussions to increase the number of vaccines per line. “We are able to increase the rates but for now, the vaccines for the following week are ordered on Friday and delivered on Monday or Tuesday. We can’t afford not to use all the doses, we’re still breaking in.”
While suggesting that the goal is to go, as soon as possible, to 500 vaccinations per week. A figure necessary to absorb the flow of new contenders for vaccination. From Monday, the center will open its doors to all people over 75 years old.
“Promising for the future”
How do you analyze the situation?
The prefecture gave us its authorization only a few days ago and we were able to be hyperreactive while the Villefranche-de-Rouergue hospital, which is in the same situation as us, is still putting things in place. . I want to thank the teams, which for almost a year, have been forced to reinvent themselves and adapt very quickly. I also welcome the strengthened collaboration between city medicine and the hospital to take care of the most vulnerable. We had too few links and these are new habits that require a lot of energy. It is promising for the future.
What are the prospects for the future?
From this morning (yesterday), we will work collectively in a “pack” format between city medicine, hospitals and communities. We want to be able to quickly set up a larger vaccination center and open it to the general public as soon as we have received the prefectural approval in order to continue to deploy the vaccination campaign.
Will you be vaccinated?
I don’t have access yet but if I could have been vaccinated today (yesterday) I would have. The idea is not to give it a treat, but as soon as I enter the target audiences, I will not hesitate.
First vaccines at the Sainte-Marie retirement home
It is 2:30 p.m. and the first vaccine has just been injected into the body of a resident of the Sainte-Marie de Nant retirement home on Thursday. This establishment in South Aveyron is a pilot establishment. Just a week ago, three establishments in North Aveyron had already carried out these symbolic medical gestures.
Patrice Vidal, director of Sainte-Marie, and his team, after being contacted by the ARS, did an enormous job of communication with the 74 residents, their families or guardians concerning the anti-Covid vaccine. in place across the country.
“ We had had contact cases since the start of the pandemic, which led to numerous screening tests within our establishment, explains Patrice Vidal. Fortunately, and thanks to repeated and respected barrier gestures, no one in our region has contracted the virus. Doctor Cadilhac made a pre-vaccination visit to the patients able to choose whether or not they wanted to be vaccinated. We insisted on the free act, the free choice, the security. We have communicated to them all the details of the consent, the timing, and the terms. I myself am going to be vaccinated, because I am a fervent activist of this citizen gesture, allowing to lighten the hospitals, to be in solidarity with each other. Some residents are aware of the urgency of a vaccination because many think of young people, of their entourage who cannot approach them within two meters. Some say that despite their old age, they must participate in the advancement of the eradication of the coronavirus. “
The first vaccine has therefore just been injected by Dr. Cadilhac, helped by a nurse, at Mr. Privat, former deputy, former mayor of L’Hospitalet, resident for three years in Sainte-Marie who, at 97 years old, is part of of the 63 patients of this retirement home who have chosen to fight against this global virus. Conversely, of a 91-year-old lady, who confesses “having been against vaccines all his life, being afraid of injections and side effects, and therefore, choosing in all conscience not to want, for the moment, to receive the vaccine”.
Patrice Vidal finishes: “Our worst enemy is social media! Some people believe in a Youtuber more than an epidemiologist. We have to fight against false information in order to get a normal life back.”
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