Vaccination center, day 7. For a week, day to day, the municipal theater of Thionville transformed into a vaccination center has doubled its capacity in 24 hours with nearly 300 daily injections. “Today, we are going to administer 288 doses of Pfizer vaccine,” said Dr Pierre Cuny, mayor of Thionville.
A rise in power that does not worry the volunteers familiar with the exercise, that is to say about twenty people per half-day, including three doctors and four nurses present simultaneously on the site. “It’s very well organized. We don’t wait. We are taken care of from start to finish, says Yvonne, from Tressange, 82 years old. I feel good. Relieved to have finally been able to get an appointment. The phone was still busy, it took several days to insist. “
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A journey in four stages
From Monday March 8, the center should move up a gear again with a goal of nearly 400 injections per day at the rate of one patient every five minutes (288 Pfizer and 120 AstraZeneca). In the cozy atmosphere of the theater, the candidates for vaccination follow a course in four stages which goes from the health questionnaire and the validation by a doctor to the injection of the serum, to the administrative formalities. Three vaccination “lines” are open, “a fourth station can be activated if the need arises”, continues Pierre Cuny.
On the logistics side, it is Jean-Christophe Hamelin-Boyer, doctor of pharmacy and city councilor, who is in charge. “Once thawed, the Pfizer serum must be used within five days and prepared within six hours, which requires two cycles of preparations per day,” notes the latter.
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Doses are worth “gold”
“The AstraZeneca leaves more room and requires one less preparation step”. The theater’s kitchen, transformed into a laboratory, is where the precious liquid is reconstituted and then meticulously prepared in doses. Each syringe is labeled, traced, numbered. “We have an accounting up to the dose. All doses are used. They are worth gold… ”, smiles the elected official. “Everything is counted,” confirms Guillaume Pfeiffer, a retired nurse who came as a reinforcement.
“The supply is done at the last minute. It is always just in time for the doses, points out Jean-Christophe Hamelin-Boyer. It adds a bit of stress. But until now, we have always had them. “
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