Health professionals regret the lack of anticipation of this increase in load brutal but adapt to the vagaries of the vaccine campaign.
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Bundled in their coats, users awaiting booster dose at the foot of the red carpet that covers the grand staircase of the town hall of the 10 th arrondissement of Paris. It was there that moved the center of municipal vaccination, seven wooden boxes hung with powder pink fabric which have been the scene of more than 115,000 injections since March. The cozy atmosphere of this ceremonial setting almost makes you forget that the center had to go suddenly from 500 to 8000 appointments per week since the opening of the recall campaign in all major population vaccinated, November 25 .
“It’s the rush, says Mellie Pignet, center coordinator nurse. It reminds me of the atmosphere of the July heat and less.” To absorb the demand that does not dry up and flee the icy air the great hall, the center will be moved upstairs in the imposing hall. Under the chandeliers and projectors, it is now 17 boxes that can accommodate 12 000 people a week from Monday. An impressive load uphill, the largest among the structures controlled by the City of Paris
in the space of 48 hours, the coreferent the center had to muster all the medical team, some 350 private doctors contractors, retirees, replacements, pharmacists and nurses. “They remobilized easily while they are all very tired,” welcomes Jeanne Villeneuve referent doctor’s vaccination center. While winter illnesses such as colds, flu, gastroenteritis and bronchiolitis have made a comeback in 2021, and the consultation periods are getting longer in offices, health professionals are to go, ready to vaccinate a patient every five minutes.
“contradictory injunction”
But there are two more weeks, the health ministry’s policy was to repatriate physicians with attendances in center to their offices, to “normalize” the booster vaccination campaign in the bringing into town. Prices for vacations were reduced, from 420 to 320 euros for doctors and 220-168 euros for nurses. But by opening of a sudden the country to 25 million French – will be 34 million end of December and 44 million end in January 2022 to be eligible for this extra dose – the executive has given no other choice than return to the mass vaccination in the centers. “There’s something about the contradictory injunction,” admits Alexandra Cordebard, mayor of the 10 th arrondissement of Paris, which is actively involved in managing the center.
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