” Mission accomplished ! “, Welcomes Agnès Caillette-Beaudoin, director of Calydial (Lyon associative center for dialysis), after learning, Friday evening, that 300 doses of the Moderna vaccine were going to be reserved for dialysis patients in the Rhône, as had promised her. ‘Regional health agency. These doses will be allocated to the three associative establishments of the Metropolis taking care of dialysis patients: Calydial, Aural and Saint Joseph Saint Luc hospital.
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The forgotten of the vaccination campaign
While they have been considered, since January 18, as priority targets for vaccination – with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines – many dialysis patients in the Rhône still did not have, at the end of the week, a date to receive their first. injection. “We have clearly been forgotten,” complained the Dr Agnès Caillette-Beaudoin, President of the Chronic Kidney Disease Committee at Fehap (Federation of Solidarity Private Hospitals and Care Establishments) which brings together around fifty dialysis facilities in France (i.e. 30% of the total).
She struggled to obtain doses of vaccines and to have patients dialysis directly in the centers. This should therefore be the case in the days to come. This is in any case what the family of Jean hopes for, dialysis three times a week at the Saint-Joseph Saint-Luc hospital in Lyon, which had not yet received information this Saturday.
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