The first center of Aude which mobilizes liberal doctors and hospitals opened this Saturday afternoon, It is in Castelnaudary, in the West of Audois, a territory where everyone has become accustomed to working together. The prefect Sophie Elizéon was present at the inauguration with the representative of the ARS, a regional health agency, Mr. Crisnaire.
“Castelnaudary is, in fact, the first center – there will be others where we have such close collaboration between city medicine and the hospital, where we run the center with liberal or hospital doctors in a indifferent and where everyone intervenes whatever their status. This makes it possible to hold a long vaccination period and also to bring more public since the liberal doctors can advise their patients to come to be vaccinated “, underlines the prefect Sophie Elizéon. The ramp-up will be done this week “, announces Virginie Gomez, director of the Chaurien hospital center who recalls that the first vaccinated were residents of EHPAD. From the beginning of the week, a hundred residents will be on the hospital center, the emergency, from Tuesday, is to vaccinate all public and private professionals in the health world. We are then awaiting authorization to vaccinate the population over 75 years old. We are told that it will be from the 18th but we could start as early as Wednesday “. Rest assured, “vaccines we have more than enough”, continues the prefect who specifies that the second injection can now be done not necessarily in 3 but in 6 weeks. We have therefore invited all practitioners to mobilize the stock we have for the first injection on the understanding that we will be restocked every week, according to the needs identified. Yes, doses, there are. “.
“There are today 300 centers open in France and we are part of it”, underlines the mayor Patrick Maugard who explains working in close collaboration with the prefecture and the ARS.
He continues with “this osmosis between liberal medicine and the hospital which does not work everywhere as it does here. The big problem in France is that these are often parallel paths whereas they should be converging. We, for several years, in particular thanks to Nathalie Bidegorry, nurse coordinator, we have a practice of working together from where this reactivity which made it possible, in 24 hours, to set up this vaccination center “. “The chance we have in our territory is this beautiful collective dynamic between the association which brings together almost all of the area’s caregivers and hospital medicine, and in conjunction with elected officials. This has enabled us to develop projects together, to support those of the caregivers. We can see the result which allowed us to adapt from the start of the crisis “, underlines in turn Philippe Greffier, president of the community of communes Castelnaudary Lauragais audois.
Patrick Maugard evokes the mass vaccination which, according to him, will be a reality soon. “In Castelnaudary, we are ready to make the house of associations available and all my fellow mayors are in the same state of mind,” he notes.
Figures that call for vigilance
The representative of the State comes back to figures which, in the department “call for a lot of vigilance. The incidence rate continues to increase. Yesterday, we were at 158 per 100,000 inhabitants; I recall that since we will reach 200 per 100,000 inhabitants we could have a curfew imposed as early as 6 pm instead of 8 pm In addition, the positivity rate has also increased significantly since it is at 5.7; has practically doubled in a week. This shows that there is a greater spread of the virus. It is absolutely necessary to respect the barrier gestures. I say this, with a lot of firmness because I saw, this morning at the market that the sales take away led people to congregate without a mask, in the street.This is not possible because it promotes the spread of the virus and endangers the most vulnerable.
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