Covid in Perpignan – At the heart of the hospital’s Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department: “We must inform to convince caregivers who have not yet been vaccinated”

“Since the start of the vaccination campaign in January, we have had candidates for vaccines with very different behaviors. First there were the very motivated, who were even impatient to find a niche, convinced of the benefit of the vaccine. Then came those who were vaccinated by obligation, living it as a constraint, not really convinced, but not for all that virulent. For a few weeks, the refractory will be vaccinated, health pass or others oblige. We feel at times of the tension, even animosity. Caregivers are sometimes treated as corrupt “.

A nurse at SMIT, Marilyn is the vaccination referent. She advocates dialogue to further convince: “We must work on the information received. It is the best way to fight against the disinformation which causes these rejections of vaccines. We must convince the still recalcitrant caregivers. They are often the first prescribers in their friendly or family circle.”

And lead another fight: that of the vaccination of the most precarious. “Those who do not have access to care for any reason whatsoever. We are making a big effort to provide them with vaccination outside the walls of hospitals or vaccination centers that they hardly attend,” militates the young nurse. In the Pyrénées-Orientales, 75% of the population has received at least one dose of an anti-Covid vaccine, or 359,427 people.

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