Since May 31, vaccination is open to all adults. Faced with this rise in power, a new vaccine strategy has been implemented in Haute-Garonne. Three new intermediate centers will see the light of day and seven others will step up. At the end of June, these ten major vaccination sites will take the place of the 36 currently working in the department. In all, they will be able to distribute 10,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine per day. In parallel with this massive campaign, several devices are being put in place to allow “the vaccination of all” in Toulouse. Some older people do in fact still not received an injection vaccine.
The Primary Health Insurance Fund (CPAM) regularly contacts its policyholders which are in this case. “Since April 1, the Health Insurance has been making outgoing calls to policyholders aged 75 and over and not vaccinated, in order to offer them to make a vaccination appointment. This represents to this day more than 20,000 calls made for the Haute Garonne department “, indicates Michel Davila, director general of the CPAM of Haute-Garonne. He adds:” The Primary Fund is now mobilizing on the deployment of attentive actions to reach vulnerable people who are more difficult to reach in the during “mass” actions“. Thus, two” exceptional “operations were organized in Toulouse.
Nearly 400 people vaccinated
“We have deployed in recent days two ephemeral vaccination centers in the heart of the Reynerie and Bagatelle districts, in order to allow seniors experiencing travel difficulties to benefit from a vaccination in the vicinity “, underlines Jean-Luc Moudenc, mayor of Toulouse and president of Toulouse Métropole. These sites had opened on the 25 and May 26, 2021, at the Henri Desbals Cultural Center, Bagatelle district, and on May 27 and 28, at the Espace Seniors, Reynerie district. “It appears that a proportion of inhabitants in the vaccination target of so-called sensitive districts wanted to be vaccinated but had not yet had access to vaccines“, informs the press release from the City.
Toulouse town hall and the Haute-Garonne CPAM in conjunction with the departmental management of the Occitanie Regional Health Agency and the Haute-Garonne Prefecture “wished to work hand in hand with ADIMEP, an association for the dissemination of preventive medicine in order to facilitate access to vaccination for residents of the neighborhoods Reynerie and Bagatelle, “the statement said. “The Health Insurance teams contacted by phone more than 6,500 inhabitants neighborhood and have set 380 vaccination appointments “, indicates Michel Davila. During these four days, nearly 400 people were able to receive their first injection. The appointments for the second are already fixed. “This will be done under the same conditions, during exceptional operations as close as possible to the inhabitants”, announces the town hall.
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