In Reims, 59 of the 70 residents of the Roederer-Boisseau EHPAD, which depends on the CHU, were vaccinated on Thursday. Alice Blanquart, 93, opened the ball, without shuddering and with a smile.
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Alice Blanquart, who will be 94 next month, was the first EHPAD resident vaccinated in the Marne, this Thursday in the middle of the day. Moments before the injection, she confided to be vaccinated ” without hesitation “. “I don’t ask myself questions. We have to do it, we have to. Lots of people don’t want to, I prefer to do it, to be protected. “
In her pretty single room in the Roederer-Boisseau residence, rue de Courlancy in Reims, she welcomes the doctor Aurore Devy-Michel and the nurse Évelyne Barthélemy with a smile. The presence of the first is compulsory, “To ensure post-vaccination surveillance in the event of an allergic problem”, she emphasizes. The second is just as essential, to make the injection.
Évelyne Barthélemy has the sure gesture: with “Thousands of vaccines on the counter”, she retired two years ago, but came as a reinforcement, at the request of the University Hospital of Reims. “I didn’t feel anything at all”, says Alice, the resident, before joking: “I can go to the ball now!” “
“I did not feel anything at all,” said Alice to the nurse, who came as a reinforcement for the vaccination campaign. – Remi Wafflart
The Roederer-Boisseau residence is one of the four EHPADs of the CHU de Reims, and the most recent. Opened in May, it has 90 rooms and accommodates 70 residents, 59 of whom have said yes to the vaccine. “The collection of consents was carried out at the beginning of the week, then the pre-vaccination medical visits were made”, details the health executive Marie-France Pailliez. And in the end, all were able to be vaccinated, in their room, this Thursday.
All residents who wished (59 out of 70) were able to be vaccinated this Thursday. – Remi Wafflart
At the same time, nursing staff over 50 (or younger with comorbid factors) paraded in the early afternoon in the same room. They took turns, and sometimes switching roles, in “You make me mine, I make you yours? “. At this rate, the trick was over in a few tens of minutes.
At the same time, nursing home care providers over the age of 50 are also vaccinated. – Remi Wafflart
“Do we feel it? “, asks a caregiver. “No more than that of the flu”, replies his colleague. “What changes the most is the reconstitution of the vaccine, connects another. It is much longer than usual. The injection then goes very quickly. “
Just vaccinated, Dr Aurore Devy-Michel says his hopes for the residency: “The vaccine protects individually, but also collectively. We welcome the vaccination with a lot of relief, because it is essential that we finally turn the Covid page. We must once again be able to enroll residents in life projects, so that they finally find a richer social life than what they have known for a year. “
Note that the other three EHPAD of the University Hospital of Reims must now be vaccinated by Tuesday. The vaccination will take place this Friday at the Wilson residence (in a part not affected by the current cluster), then on January 11 at the Marguerite-Rousselet residence and on January 12 at the Roux residence.
