Health Insurance will now call people over 75 who have not been vaccinated to offer them an appointment. A unique number will also be set up to facilitate their procedures.
“Out of nearly 7 million people over 75 years old, 3.5 million have not been vaccinated,” Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday in the Sunday newspaper. To remedy this, the Head of State indicated that France will “systematize appeals to over 75s […] to offer them appointments “.
“From this week, there will also be a unique number, which will function as a fast-track and which will allow anyone over 75 to get an appointment in the coming weeks”, added the head of the ‘State.
This targeting “targets the most modest people, those furthest from care, who remain a little sealed off,” he said.
Data crossing
Thomas Fatôme, the director general of the National Health Insurance Fund, explained this Sunday to the Parisian that the Health Insurance will cross the data at its disposal to “identify those who have not yet been vaccinated and call them to offer them to do so”.
“This system of ‘phoning’ is already carried out with precarious elderly people, in certain territories such as Essonne, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-d’Oise, Côte-d’Or, Jura, Haut -Rhin, Bas-Rhin and Corrèze. The idea is to extend this system to the whole of France and to ramp up from next week, “he added.
Since Saturday, people over 70 are now eligible for the administration of a vaccine against Covid-19. A new step in the vaccination campaign, which began on December 27 with the residents of nursing homes. And
