10 o’clock sharp, this Monday morning, at the Léo-Ferré space in Bagneux, about fifteen people wait their turn to be vaccinated, patiently … But what to wait a few more minutes, after having waited close two months to receive the long-awaited injection?
The vaccination center of Bagneux was indeed to open on January 25, after the city was placed under “reinforced surveillance” by the regional health agency, following the discovery of a case of the British variant to Covid-19 .
For lack of sufficient doses, its opening was postponed … until Monday, therefore. Four other centers opened that same day in Gennevilliers, Levallois-Perret, Châtillon (shared with Malakoff) and Antony (shared with Bourg-la-Reine and Sceaux). They are added to the thirteen already existing structures in the department.
The five new centers will be equipped exclusively with the Moderna vaccine, the manufacture of which in France was to begin this month. They were each given 920 doses for the week, instead of the 740 initially planned. They should have the same amount the following week.
The waiting list has been purged
By comparison, the first centers had opened in January with about 400 weekly doses of Pfizer vaccine and now have about 800. The vaccines should quickly find buyers.
“Since the opening is confirmed, we are saturated with calls”, observes Marie-Hélène Amiable, mayor (PCF) of Bagneux. The waiting list has been purged but appointments are still available for this week.
Confronted with the concern of its oldest citizens, especially after the discovery of the mutant virus, Marie-Hélène Amiable can finally breathe a little: “it is a relief to be able to protect its inhabitants, especially since it starts in a very acute period of the health crisis again ”.
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After completing a health questionnaire, spending ten minutes with a doctor about potential side effects and giving consent, Roland, 92, receives a first dose of the vaccine. “It’s really a sting of nothing at all and it’s a good thing done!” The second injection is already scheduled for April 12, it’s very well organized, ”smiles the nonagenarian, the first inhabitant of Bagneux to be vaccinated at the center.
Before leaving, Roland settles down for 15 minutes in an “observation space”, the time to see, for the volunteers of the Red Cross, whether he is tolerating the injection well. For him, as for those who will follow, the injection does not seem to cause any particular disorder.
The center wants to ramp up
“It’s not at all painful, it’s like the flu,” sweeps away Georges, who will be celebrating his 77 years in a month, with the back of his hand. The septuagenarian was impatiently waiting to be vaccinated. He had tried to secure an appointment elsewhere, but like many elderly people in Bagneux, his attempts were unsuccessful. “I am relieved now because I saw my children and grandchildren masked, it was starting to last,” he adds.
Beside him, Raymonde, 88, patient under the benevolent gaze of his daughter Martine, 63. The retired nurse scrambled for weeks to secure an appointment with her mother. In vain.
“We’ve been taking all our precautions with her for a year. I do all of her shopping. When we hold family reunions, it is in very small groups and with all the necessary precautions. There, we know that with the vaccine, she is not at risk of having a severe form of the disease, ”says Martine. The danger of infecting her mother reduced, the former nurse took the opportunity to offer her services to the management of the center.
The latter gladly accepts the help since the center wishes to ramp up in the coming weeks by going from four vaccination tents to five, or even six to vaccinate as many people as possible simultaneously.
The center is open Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Appointment by phone at 01.45.36.13.50 and on Doctolib.
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