From 3 to 10 rue Saint-Nicolas de Thionville, there is only one road to cross and a few steps to take. For the faithful of the Pharmacie du Lion, the move has propelled them, since Monday, March 15, into a new dimension. The dispensary, cramped in its 80 m², breathes within 300 m² once occupied by the old Match supermarket. Better still, the healthcare offer is complemented, in a neighboring wing, with the establishment of a new laboratory headed by the EspaceBio group. “With the activity which does not cease increasing these last months, these new premises fall at the right time”, sighs Sébastien Villaume while sinking in his chair. His phone rings, the break promises to be short.
“Yes Madam, there will be no problem for the beginning of April. “For weeks, the pharmacist has been coloring his schedule of appointments. The antigenic tests, he performs them (in person) at the assembly line: “Every day or so, we are full. With the problem of cross-border workers, forced to produce a valid test to work in Germany, slots are reserved from one week to the next. “He breathes and lets go:” It’s a monstrous job. Soon, the profession will be put to the test of a new test, that of vaccination.
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10 doses = 1 h 30 of work
“We must receive the vials of vaccine in the next few days. Finally THE bottle, ”he corrects. That is ten doses to be administered to ten pharmacy customers aged 50 to 74 and presenting with comorbidities: “It will not be difficult to find them”, breaths Sébastien Villaume. Nor to set up an organization to absorb this new task: “We will do this in the evening, after 6 pm, and in small rooms so as not to mix everyone up. “
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10 doses = 1 h 30 of work
Ten doses is not the bitter drink… “What takes the longest is the fifteen minute observation period after the injection. “Ten doses is therefore at least an hour and a half of additional workload for the four pharmacists (soon to be five) at Le Lion, the only ones authorized to perform the act. “In a structure like ours today, it will be fine. But when the deployment of vaccines will be more important, it will become very complicated to manage our traditional clientele, tests and vaccines, he anticipates. How will smaller pharmacies handle the flow of customers and vaccinees? The question still arises for pharmacies where there is only one pharmacist… ”
By accompanying us by the “service exit”, namely the parking lot being finalized, his gaze falls on the neighboring municipal vaccination center: “The structure is working very well, he judges. I would prefer that my bottle be delivered to them and that our teams make on-call duty ”. Obviously, this is not the meaning of the story.
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