She is so waiting for this vaccine that she came to check in person that her appointment, taken by phone, had been well noted. Denise, 92, is one of some 500 people who were already registered Wednesday at the Saint-Mandé and Vincennes vaccination center (within the Cresco in Saint-Mandé) to be vaccinated the week of January 18. Date on which the vaccination of people over 75 years of age begins, as announced by the government.
12 centers from Monday, others “later”
In Val-de-Marne, we learned this Thursday evening that 12 centers will be accessible to people aged 75 and over from Monday: Alfortville, Champigny, Nogent, Saint-Mandé and Vincennes, Sucy-en-Brie, Villeneuve -Saint-Georges, Arcueil, Bonneuil (from Tuesday), L’Haÿ-les-Roses, Maisons-Alfort, Orly and Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. The prefecture of Val-de-Marne specifies that this device “is intended to increase in the coming weeks” and that “other centers may be opened later”. This is the case in Créteil, where the mayor PS Laurent Cathala obtained the opening seven days a week, from January 25, of a vaccination place at the Marie-Thérèse-Eyquem sports center.
It is already possible to make an appointment at the following centers: Alfortville, Champigny, Nogent, Saint-Mandé / Vincennes, Sucy, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. For the others, it will be necessary to wait until Monday.
As for the vaccination centers located in hospital structures within the department (Emile-Roux in Limeil, Mondor in Créteil, Bicêtre, Paul-Brousse in Villejuif, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges hospital) therefore remain reserved for caregivers. , contrary to what had been expected. What regrets the LR mayor of Saint-Maurice Igor Semo.
“It made sense, regrets the chosen one. The hospitals had the experience, knew how to manage the vaccine, and they have a good service. “In his town, those over 75 will have to go to Maisons-Alfort, while the Hospitals of Saint-Maurice have started vaccination for caregivers. “We will have to find transport solutions to accompany the elderly. But we cannot block entire slots, what can be done with residents of autonomous residences? », Continues the elected.
Proposed routes
Note that in Nogent, the municipality will offer the inhabitants concerned a shuttle to take them to the vaccination center. Likewise in Créteil. Cachan also, although it is not among the cities selected for the establishment of a center. The city “had made it known that it was ready to host a center and provide the necessary resources”. Despite this outcome, it will offer “a transport system dedicated to people over 75 years of age experiencing mobility difficulties”.
In the department, inhabitants over 75 represent a little more than 7% of the total population, which amounts to 1,405,700 inhabitants, or approximately 100,000 people.
“You have to believe this vaccine,” explains Denise, the retired dynamic of Saint-Mandé. She herself is waiting for “that” to continue to enjoy life. “I’m lucky to be in great shape,” she slips. So we might as well do everything to make it last ”. On the screens of the two people providing the reception she had just left on Wednesday, the appointment calendar seems to be full. On that day, 27 injections were to be given in the afternoon.
Objective of 200 vaccinations per day in Saint-Mandé
At a time when vaccine doses were still reserved for caregivers, only. All arrive from Saint-Anne hospital in Paris, and their temperature under the Saint-Mandé sky is checked several times a day. “We are very careful that there is no break in the cold chain”, explains Alain Assouline, deputy delegate for health in Saint-Mandé and general practitioner.
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“We hope to be able to quickly go up to 200 vaccinations per day as recommended by the ARS (regional health agency), adds the one who coordinates this center which has taken place within the Cresco, a municipal facility of 3200 m2 dedicated to culture and innovation.
An exhibition is even visible at the moment in this building inaugurated last year. Its ocher colors, design and ambient temperature make it look more like a cocoon than a vaccination center. The reading corner is temporarily closed. Those who pass through its doors do not stay there for long anyway.
Alfortville is looking for healthcare volunteers
“The vaccination goes very quickly,” explains Alain Assouline. It is in fact the reception which takes more time, because each file must be rechecked. Reason for which it was “doubled” from the second day in Saint-Mandé, still in “breaking” Wednesday: two agents of the city, as many screens and telephones.
The mayor of Vincennes Charlotte Libert-Albanel (UDI) who visited the center that day with the mayor (LR) of Saint-Mandé Julien Weil asked the question of the needs in terms of volunteers. Some towns such as Alfortville, the first to have opened a vaccination center, recently launched an appeal in this direction for health care volunteers. “We are forced to work with a small team,” retorts Alain Assouline. He himself knows all the nurses who work there: they were already mobilized within the screening center still open in the city center.
In a semi-protected space, one of the two vaccination boxes, one of them accommodates a resident of Vincennes, a dental surgeon in a hospital environment in Paris. Just stung, he immortalizes this moment with a selfie. “I’m going to send it to friends and then it’s to encourage people”, explains this professional, still stunned to have learned very recently that one of his patients had “80 days of coma” after having contracted the Covid-19.
The inter-union of retirees is on the lookout
The center of Saint-Mandé hopes to quickly benefit from a third box. “More vaccines, more staff to administer them, more places to do it”, is what the inter-union (CGT, FO, Solidaires, FSU, FGR-FP) of the department’s retirees asks in a letter sent at the prefecture. Jean Amar, who is at its head, evokes a “dramatic” vaccination strategy in France.
Retirees “need this policy to be quickly reviewed,” writes the head of the intersyndicale. And under his pen, they warn: they will be “attentive to the answers” given to their “questions and concerns”.
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