By David Leduc
Published on 18 Jan 21 at 19:55
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Since this Monday, the people over 75 joined the health professionals, home help and firefighters over 50 years old on the list of people who can be vaccinated at the Sucy-en-Brie vaccination center. But the City is worried about the number of vaccines that she has in her possession. And this is not an isolated case in Val-de-Marne.
2000 meeting in Sucy-en-Brie
According to the City, the shortage of vaccines may “greatly disrupt this complex organization” undertaken last week. And for good reason, the vaccination center of Sucy-en-Brie estimates to have already assigned… No less than 2000 meetings. The City of Sucy-en-Brie declares:
“The municipal services, local doctors and nurses (around the CPTS) have done their best to react as quickly as possible and respond to the greatest number. But today, the shortage of vaccines is likely to greatly disrupt this complex organization. Until having to deprogram and reschedule appointments already made.In the space of a few days, the municipal agents responsible for receiving calls from over 75 years old, a category currently “vaccineable” (to which have been added since Thursday some categories of vulnerable people) assigned around 2000 appointments, ranging from January 18 to mid-February “
Towards deprogramming?
The municipality specifies that “these appointments were offered on the basis of our ability to vaccinate with local doctors and nurses (still the only people authorized to vaccinate). “For this week, the first open to people over 75 years old, the Sucy-en-Brie vaccination center hoped to be able to provide 480 vaccines. “However, our vaccine allocation decided by theRegional Health Agency (ARS) is only 195. Faced with this situation, the Mayor requested an increase in our allocation. He was told orally that the Sucy center could benefit from 150 additional vaccines. Assuming that this supplement is well confirmed, it will remain insufficient to meet all the appointments, ”said the City.
The City of Sucy-en-Brie fears having to “deprogram part of the meetings”.
“It’s illegible”
Concerns that are shared elsewhere in other municipalities. At the microphone of BFM TV, the mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses, Vincent Jeanbrun (Free), asked the State to create a “central vaccination file” to facilitate the work of the centers: “Just for the center that I opened in my city, I have barely 40 doses for 4000 registered, some of whom come from Saint-Malo, Chartres or Paris. It’s illegible, ”he said.
I ask the State for a central file and a “vaccination card”, as for the school card.
Just for the center that I opened in my city, I have barely 40 doses for 4000 registered people, some of whom come from Saint-Malo, Chartres or Paris. It is illegible! pic.twitter.com/jpr437Hrpr
– Vincent JEANBRUN (@VincentJEANBRUN) January 18, 2021
There is the concern of city officials who have a center in their territory, and there is that of others. Pierre Bell-Lloch (PCF), mayor of Vitry-sur-Seine, declared on Monday his fear of “future saturation of the surrounding vaccination centers, a brake on the vaccination of Vitriots even as the virus progresses”. Vitry-sur-Seine, the first municipality of Val-de-Marne in terms of number of inhabitants, has (for the moment) no vaccination center. The city council estimates the number of inhabitants affected by phase 1 of vaccination at 5,000.
“For several weeks we have been working, in conjunction with health professionals in the municipality, to support this vaccination strategy for our inhabitants. In terms of premises, staff made available, protocols to ensure fluidity and ease of access: we are ready”.
For his part, Philippe Bouyssou, Mayor of Ivry-sur-Seine (PCF), fears “disparities” and wants “equity of access” for the elderly to vaccination centers: “Like many mayors, I had also informed the ‘Status of Ivry’s availability to host one of these centers. This is not the case, unfortunately. Obviously, I consider it entirely legitimate that the choice of installing these centers rests with the State and the Regional Health Agency. But it is not acceptable that this decision produces inequalities in access to the vaccine: no sectorization of centers, nor the possibility of organizing collective meetings as many cities are capable of doing. It is therefore up to people aged over 75, populations that sometimes suffer from isolation and the digital divide, to try, alone, to make an appointment by phone or on the internet in order to hope to be vaccinated in health centers. ‘ores and already overloaded,’ he said. And to conclude:
“Whether you get vaccinated in Ivry or elsewhere, the objective must remain equity of access. Without ignoring the logistical challenge of this unprecedented vaccination campaign, the State must ensure this coordination work. is in the sense that in the days to come, with other mayors, we will formulate proposals “.
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