By Julien Ducouret
Posted on 25 May 20 at 18:24
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L’Ile-de-France regional health agency has decided, with the support of partners (health insurance, local authorities, AP-HP, etc.) to initiate the establishment of sItinerant screening for Covid-19 (tests PCR).
So a free screening operation at Covid-19 is organized on Tuesday May 26, 2020 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Garges-Sarcelles (Val-d’Oise).
Increase access to PCR testing
Within the framework of deconfinement, The Île-de-France regional health agency has drawn up an action plan to strengthen access to RT-PCR tests for populations and areas in social difficulty.
Indeed, the problems of access to care and prevention, in particular due to the social difficulties of the inhabitants, access to information, the more marked scarcity of medical resources can hinder both the knowledge of preventive measures and the screening, ”indicates the Île-de-France Regional Health Agency.
Priority areas, including Sarcelles, have therefore been targeted so that extended screening operations can be organized there.
To read also: Val-d’Oise. Covid-19: a screening center open in Gonesse
May request a medical interview, and if necessary be prescribed and perform a free screening as part of this operation:
– Symptomatic people (cough, fever, stiffness, loss of taste or smell, etc.);
– People at risk, or aiming with people at risk (people over 65, people with chronic diseases – especially cardiovascular, diabetes, obesity, respiratory pathologies, cancers, etc. -, pregnant women);
– People who think they have been in contact who is or has been sick.
Mediators from the Ensemble pour le développement humaine association will be present in order to reach out to the maximum number of users concerned by the difficulties of accessing tests, in particular by lifting the language barrier, ”indicates the municipality of Sarcelles.
In addition, communication documents on barrier gestures, translated into several languages, will be distributed.
The partners of the screening operation
– City of Sarcelles
– Ile-de-France regional health agency
– Health professionals from the Private North Parisian Hospital and the COVID center in Sarcelles;
– Laboratory Ana-Laboratory of Sarcelles;
– French Red Cross;
– Association “Together for human development”;
– Chaptal Foundation.
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