Shortly after noon, 36-year-old Hind received his Covid-19 booster shot. Employed at the departmental nursery of Drancy, she lives in Bobigny. “I had my second dose at the end of August. I knew that this center was opening so I booked a slot on Doctolib. To continue working, it was essential that I have my 3th dose.”
On the other hand, one detail worries her: those over thirty can only receive the Moderna vaccine. “My first two doses were Pfizer, so I’m a little concerned with everything that has been said“.
Recall vaccinal
Hind was taken care of by Dorian, a firefighter in Clichy-sous-Bois who came as reinforcement. Until then he was assigned to the box dedicated to 1time and 2th doses that remain empty.
In the space where the candidates for vaccination are waiting, a small crowd forms. Confusion, tinged with impatience, sets in. Most of the vaccine candidates are there for the 3th dose. Some have been misguided like Clément, 39, who has been waiting for a good hour and a half. He presented himself to the firefighter in charge of the vaccination. But he was returned to the airlock of the doctors responsible for certifying eligibility to continue the vaccination course.
“It’s the first day of opening of the center, we are still in the process of breaking in“, Apologizes Marie Pastor, head of the service of prevention and health actions at the departmental council of Seine-Saint-Denis. “It is true that it lacks a bit of organization, but it is already very good that we have this possibility“, Notes, philosopher, Kader, 46 years old, from La Courneuve.
–3,300 doses per week
Open Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., the department’s new center is located at 225, avenue Paul Vaillant Couturier in Bobigny, on the ground floor of the European 3, a building bringing together several departments of the departmental administration including those of youth, Europe and international. “It is a whole section of the services which was reassembled in the floors in 48 hours“, Indicates a manager.
At its maximum capacity, up to 3,300 doses can be injected per week. At present, it has six vaccination lines, but their number could be increased to eight if necessary. “A third of these availabilities are accessible without appointment to priority groups: the over 65s and people with comorbidities for the booster dose, as well as people entering the vaccination schedule“, Specifies Marie Pastor. This Monday morning, three people were in this case.
In total, apart from the person in charge, 14 people will be mobilized to run the center: six assigned to injections including three agents from the Paris fire brigade and three agents from the maternal and child protection service (PMI), two doctors of the PMI and six administrative officers of the department.
64.9% of vaccinated in Seine-Saint-Denis
“After the Thursday evening conference with measures to be implemented on Saturday, it was necessary as usual to be responsive“, Criticizes Stéphane Troussel, deploring a lack of consultation“both with local authorities and with the local state [la préfecture].
The president of the departmental council refers to the press conference given on November 25 by the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, establishing new rules, including the most important, the opening to all adults of the 3th booster dose for the Covid-19 vaccine from the following November 27 and conditioning of the health pass to the booster dose between five and seven months after the second injection.
However, a little over a month earlier, the departmental vaccination centers, three in number (Tremblay-en-France, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine and Noisy-le-Grand) to which was added a traveling bus, closed by decision of the prefecture.
The State then wished to favor vaccination through attending physicians, nurses, pharmacies and laboratories. An unsuitable strategy for Stéphane Troussel, in a department “where city medicine is weaker”Than elsewhere and while“digital platforms are every man for himself. ” Hence the department’s efforts to maintain outward-looking initiatives in connection with the municipalities or via the solidarity appeals platform, set up during the first confinement and reactivated to target, as part of the vaccination, elderly and disabled.
However, vaccination remains a strategic issue in Seine-Saint-Denis. As of December 12, 64.9% of the population had received a dose of the vaccine, 13 points below the national average (77.94%) according to figures from the regional health agency (ARS).
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