[La Cavalerie] The Larzac et Vallées health network, one-off vaccination center

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HEALTH A first in the Aveyron department, the Larzac and valleys health network has exceptionally obtained from the Occitanie Regional Health Agency (ARS) to be an ephemeral vaccination center.

It will be able to administer nearly 250 Pfizer-type vaccines (39 vials for 7 doses per vial) on March 17 and March 19 afternoon for a first injection and on April 14 and 16 for the booster injection. The vaccinations are distributed between the health center of Nant and the multidisciplinary health center of the Cavalry. 180 people went there in total, spread over each of the 2 points on March 17 and nearly 74 on March 19 at the Cavalry only.

All of the network’s healthcare professionals mobilized in record time to organize such an operation. The town halls and local communities have greatly contributed to making this operation a medical success, by contacting from the electoral lists, the population targeted by this campaign. It is therefore the inhabitants of the territory of the network over 75 years old to whom the vaccine has been offered. It was not imposed (less than 10% refused it) and those who already had a scheduled vaccination kept their commitment.

There are thus 4 lines, each made up of a doctor and a nurse who will receive the patients one by one and carry out the vaccination.

The system implemented reveals the efficiency of a networked organization, which every day underlines the power of pooling human and material resources. The remote rural territory thus has access to the public service of health.

Logistics is important, telephone calls, updating of a schedule monitoring table, provision of equipment, materials, syringes, containers for each waste, extraction of doses from vials, reception of patients, verification of eligibility criteria, injection, updating of official monitoring by health insurance with its “Covid Vaccine” teleservice, etc. Nothing should be missing on D-Day.

Logistics: Only vaccination centers offer Pfizer. The doses for the department are stored at minus 80 ° at the Rodez hospital pharmacy, the thawed vaccine must be used within 5 days. The doses were ordered from ARS with the support of its director of the Departmental Delegation, Benjamin Arnal. The Cavalry pharmacy provided logistical reception for the vaccines. All the professional bodies constituting the health center got involved.