By Delphine Revol
Published on 7 Jan 21 at 19:09
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The Cricqueboeuf hospital center (Calvados) had applied before Christmas to be in the first to vaccinate their patients against Covid-19, residents of nursing homes and caregivers. The strategy of vaccination As the national level has accelerated in recent days, several hospitals have received doses of the vaccine this week.
50 doses of the vaccine arrived this Thursday, January 7, 2021.
“We decided to start with the most fragile people, namely those hospitalized on the Equemauville site, in Long stay”
Explain Yannig Jézequel, director of the Côte Fleurie hospital center.
The USLD (long-term care unit) therefore began by vaccinating 15 residents having previously given their absolute consent.
“They were 17 out of 30 questioned to have accepted, but two have since withdrawn”
A caregiver trinomial composed ofa doctor and two nurses went from room to room to administer the product to the elderly.
–Five nursing staff from the USLD were also vaccinated on this first day, including the coordinating doctor for the Long Stay and the Ehapd, Dr Foulon (on the picture).
This Friday, January 8, 2021, 50 additional doses must arrive at the hospital and these are the residents of theEquemauville nursing home (70 out of 152 gave their consent) who will be vaccinated, as well as the nursing staff of the Cricquebœuf hospital center, as well as the administrative staff at risk and over 50 years of age. At theEhpad of Trouville, 20 residents also gave their consent.
L’supply seems anticipated:
“The doses of vaccine, which are manufactured in Belgium, arrive at the Caen University Hospital where they are kept in a fridge at -80 degrees. They then arrive by carrier between 12 and 2 p.m. We are still awaiting a delivery next Wednesday. there will be no shortage, not even for the second injection which will take place in 21 to 28 days “
reassures the director Yannig Jezequel.
–Vaccination also in the private medical sector
Asked this Thursday, January 7, 2021, Patrick Louis, director of the Deauville polyclinic, announces that caregivers will be vaccinated there from this Friday, January 8. It provides for “five members of the staff of Deauville vaccinated every day”. Vaccination at the Lisieux polyclinic, of which he is also director, will begin on Monday as at the Robert Bisson hospital center in Lisieux.
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