Swabs, tubes, gloves, visors and disinfectant are all lined up, waiting to be used by the three nurses present. Monday, November 30, 2020, municipal equipment, more used to hosting leisure or sports activities, was transformed into a Covid-19 screening center.
A first in Chartres, and a real pride for all the players who have worked to set up this organization. “A month ago, when the antigenic tests came out, I was looking for a way to be able to do them,” explains Sophie Goret, the Chartres deputy in charge of health policy, who concedes that he is “not always easy to bring together skills and actors ”.
With the territorial professional health community (CPTS) of the Pays Chartrain, the elected representative sought to bring together pharmacists, who provide the tests, the laboratories, in charge of carrying them out, the liberal nurses, who take care of the samples, and the community, for the loan of premises. All on a voluntary basis. “It is time that we give to help society in the fight against the virus”, launch the two liberal nurses present Monday, November 30.
It was also necessary to create the tools to make everything work: a secretariat for making appointments, traceability sheets … Finally, we had to find places capable of accommodating a mobile screening center, because “premises hard, it’s always better than under a barnum when it’s cold, especially for people not very fit, ”says Sophie Goret, herself a health professional.
As the holidays approach, there is going to be an increased demand for testing.
Aurélie Letertre-Monnier (Coordinator of the territorial professional health community of the Pays Chartres)
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Monday, November 30, only eight patients presented for a PCR test. A figure that seems logical to Aurélie Letertre-Monnier, coordinator of the CPTS of the Pays Chartrain. “We were only able to give the phone number for making an appointment at the end of last week. And then, at the moment, we everywhere feel that there are fewer test requests, confinement is giving results. But “as the holidays approach, there will be increased demand,” she believes.
Screenings organized in homes for all in Chartres, from this Monday
Among the people who came to be tested, Maria came out very serene from this first experience of swabbing the nasal cavities. “It’s like an injection, you have to be relaxed,” she smiles behind her mask. At 68, she has been feeling “a lot of fatigue and pain” for a few days and therefore preferred to come to be clear “not just for me, because I rub shoulders with the elderly”.
With or without an appointment. The reception in the mobile screening center in Chartres is preferably made by appointment, but “if a person wakes up one morning with a minor cold or fever and is in doubt, he can come without an appointment. -you ”, insists Aurélie Letertre-Monnier, the coordinator of the CPTS of the Pays Chartrain. As for people who are going on a trip for the holiday season, she advises them to go about it now to book an appointment a few days before departure. New, asymptomatic contact cases are now eligible for antigenic testing, “as soon as possible, and up to seven days for high-risk contact persons, that is to say within the same household, and to D + 7 for extended contacts ”, indicated Friday, November 27, the High Authority of Health.
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Be ready for the future vaccination campaign
A good reflex, since it makes it possible to “stop these chains of contamination and to be able to isolate the patients as soon as possible, insists Sophie Goret. As long as you don’t have a vaccine, you can’t do without the tests. And barrier gestures. “
Because these screening centers also constitute, for the elected representative and for the coordinator of the CPTS, “a good operating mode for the vaccination campaign” which, if it does not yet have a defined date, should intervene in a few months. time. The Chartres region will then have a tool to vaccinate the inhabitants.
Places and dates.
MPT of La Madeleine, mail Jean-de-Dunois. Wednesday 2 and Friday 4 December, from 2 to 4 p.m.
MPT of Rechèvres, 52, impasse Huysmans. Monday 7, Wednesday 9 and Friday 11 December, from 2 to 4 p.m.
House for all of Saint-Chéron. 2, rue de la Mare-à-Boulay. Monday 14, Wednesday 16 and Friday 18 December, from 2 to 4 p.m.
House for all of the Petits-Clos, 4, avenue François-Mitterrand. Monday 21, Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 December, from 2 to 4 p.m.
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Geraldine Sellès
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