This two-week experimentation concerns five pharmacies located in Ile-de-France, in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and in Hauts-de-France. It aims to determine whether it is relevant to extend the vaccination campaign in pharmacy.
Le Monde with AFP
This should accelerate vaccination. After the announcement, made Monday, by the Ministry of Health of the launch of an experimentation of the vaccination against the variole of the monkey in five pharmacies of the territory, The decree was promulgated in the Official Journal, Tuesday August 9.
These five pharmacies, located in Ile-de-France, in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and in Hauts-de-France, were selected by the regional health authorities. Vaccination will start there on Wednesday for an experiment that will last two weeks.
The ministry considers that this experiment will test the “organizational models between pharmacies and hospitals that receive doses”, in order to decide whether or not to extend the vaccination campaign to Other pharmacies.
On August 4, 153 vaccination centers had been opened throughout French territory and 20,322 people had been vaccinated.
Evaluate if there is no ” doses losses “
The vaccine used for vaccination against the variole of the monkey must be kept at very low temperature ( – 80 degrees) and “can only be kept fifteen days” when it has been thawed, explains the ministry.
Vaccines, although monodoses, are packaged in twenty -dose boxes. “It will therefore be a question of evaluating if there are no dose losses,” said the ministry. He recalls that, unlike the COVVI-19 vaccination campaign, pharmacies can only aim for a limited audience.
The target audience notably includes men with sexual relations with people of the same sex reporting having multiple sexual partners, people also reporting having multiple sexual partners as well as sex workers and professionals working in places of sexual consumption.
In response to criticisms issued by LGBT associations and left -wing elected officials on the slowness of the vaccination campaign, the Minister of Health, François Braun, said, last week, to work at the launch of this experiment.
The large Paris vaccination center recalled vaccinated people
Monday, the largest vaccination center for the variole of the monkey located in Paris recalled nearly 500 people vaccinated within it between August 2 and 4 to vaccinate them again, “due to a break in the Cold chain “.
“This does not lead to any health risk for the people concerned, but a new first injection is necessary to be effectively protected against the virus [Monkeypox]”, writes the town hall of Paris in a message published on his site .
“There was a defective refrigerator” and the optimal temperature for the conservation of vaccines was not respected, she explains. The failure was discovered on Thursday morning and led to the immediate closure of the center.
“We checked that there was no toxicity. The ANSM [National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products] came and certified that there was no risk” , said Anne Souyris, assistant to the mayor of Paris responsible for public health.
The recalled people are offered a new meeting and “are priority over all open slots”, at the Edison Center or in free information, screening and diagnostic centers, she said elsewhere underlined.
After its temporary closure, the center, located in the 13 e arrondissement of the capital and opened since July 26, reopens its doors on Tuesday.