Through Margaux Thokagevistk
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On deck 7 days a week since Wednesday April 21, the medical staff of the vaccinodrome of Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) delivers a real daily chess game to avoid losing even a single dose of vaccine Pfizer-BioNtech.
Everyone is mobilizing to achieve a simple objective: the “Zero waste”. Anyway… That’s on paper because in reality it’s not always so easy for teams who have to cease adapting to it. There is only one watchword for this: to anticipate.
Objective: “zero-waste”
At vaccinodrome, the number of daily appointments is currently limited to 2,100, so theoretically 2,100 people come to be vaccinated every day.
“But there are bound to be people who cancel or simply do not show up. That is why, throughout the day, we are in contact with the referents of the online and telephone reservation platform. their teams who take care of filling in the “holes”.
And while every night of Toulouse week non-priority come to try their luck without an appointment in the hope of recovering one of the doses that would not have been used, the Dr Stephen Alama would like to clarify things:
“Firstly, the vaccinodrome is not intended to become a secretariat so people who wish to be vaccinated, even those who are in the eligible age groups, must register via the various platforms. Finally, regarding doses, we have set up an organization that allows us today to anticipate the influx of patients and therefore not to lose doses “.
A well-oiled organization
The Toulouse vaccinodrome is now in operation “Just in time”, in other words, the teams no longer prepare the doses according to the number of people expected but rather according to the the number of people present.
“From 4 p.m., or a little more than 2 hours before the center closes, we stop preparing the doses in advance. We then recalculate the number of people who have already passed by and the number of people still present in the hospital. the queue. This allows us to manage the entry flow and therefore avoid wasting doses “.
If today, Dr. Stephen Alama welcomes this well-oiled organization, he admits that at the opening of the vaccinodrome, they found themselves with open vials and available doses, but no one to administer them.
In order not to waste them, “we vaccinated health professionals who are exposed every day to Covid, namely firefighters, vaccinodrome staff, as well as paramedical staff from the CHU, ”explains the specialist, who himself vaccinated in mid-March nine nurses to the hospital.
Patient safety above all
And while in some cities health authorities are forced to close vaccinodromes for lack of a sufficient number of patients, Dr Stephen Alama is not afraid a scenario à la niçoise …
“Unlike the vaccination center in Nice, the inhabitants are vaccinated with only Pfizer-BioNtech which does not suffer from a bad image, unlike AstraZeneca. And then, everything is done to ensure the safety of the patient with a questionnaire to be completed and a prior interview on site with a caregiver “.
And to conclude: “The goal is to check that they have no medical contraindications and also that they are in the right time to receive their first dose. Today, the rule is set at three months after the symptoms disappear ”.
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