For the third weekend in a row, the Albi exhibition center is converted into a Covid-19 vaccination center. The teams of caregivers, municipal staff and park employees are mobilizing to welcome 200 patients in two days. Saturday morning, the center received a visit from the president of the Tarn departmental council, Christophe Ramond, and the president of the Tarn medical order council, Etienne Moulin.
Vaccination of vulnerable, disabled and / or over 75 year olds continues at the Albi exhibition center, which is currently on its third weekend. On Saturday morning, patients were gradually arriving in the hall of the building to receive their first injection – or even the second for some.
The operation of the center is now well established thanks to the mobilization of many actors: staff of the exhibition center, municipal employees, private nurses and doctors. In the waiting room, ten people are quietly waiting to be called. “People are quite happy to be here because they managed to get an appointment,” says one of the two nurses present today.
After having the person sit down and checking their temperature, the caregiver takes a syringe and injects the dose of vaccine. Not even hurt ! Then the patient is taken to another waiting room where he is monitored for 15 minutes in case of anaphylactic shock. “I was impatient to be vaccinated, admits an octogenarian. If this is the only solution to curb the epidemic, it must be done.”
“We can go up to 500 patients per day”
In the entrance hall, Bernard Champanet, president of the Tarn pharmacists’ union which supervises the center, makes several calls: a place has become available in the schedule and he must find another person ready to be vaccinated in the ‘afternoon. 200 people are vaccinated in the weekend, or 100 per day, and all doses must be injected.
This Saturday, the pharmacist received a visit from the president of the Tarn departmental council, Christophe Ramond, and the president of the Tarn order of doctors, Etienne Moulin. “It’s going very well,” the doctor said with satisfaction. We have very dedicated health professionals. I have a waiting list of doctors ready to help. ” The Department is not left out: “We keep our nurses and doctors available and we have proposed the establishment of a mobile center. But today the problem is the doses,” explains Christophe Ramond. The aim of this visit was therefore to show that communities and health professionals were ready for the ramp-up of vaccinations. “In the exhibition center, we can easily go up to 500 or even 600 patients per day”, assures Bernard Champannet.
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“We vaccinated people from Béziers, Colomiers, Gers, Tarn-et-Garonne”, lists Bernard Champannet. And this is not to the taste of the president of the pharmacists’ union in Tarn: “It is a local center”, he recalls a bit annoyed. To avoid this kind of inconsistency and primarily satisfy the demands of the people of Tarn, Bernard Champanet had made a proposal: “That people register in pharmacies and that they be called back to make an appointment. Currently, some are unable to make an appointment via the dedicated number. ”
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