The government will "put the package on vaccination".
Traveling in the Creuse this Saturday, Prime Minister Jean Castex once again expressed the government's desire to speed up vaccination in France.
To illustrate this boost wanted by the executive, many means have been deployed throughout the country.
The Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly notably announced the mobilization of four military hospitals to “participate in the vaccine effort”.
What is a military hospital?
France has eight army training hospitals (HIA).
They are attached to the Army Health Service.
These military structures have the original mission of treating wounded or sick soldiers.
But they also take in civilian patients, who are even in the majority there.
The caregivers are mainly personnel of the health services of the armed forces.
Four military hospitals will participate in the vaccine effort this weekend.
Their mission: to contribute to the collective effort to increase the rate of vaccination of the French against covid-19.
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Some of these hospitals were already participating, since January 7, in the vaccine campaign against the coronavirus.
This weekend, the structures mobilized are the HIA de Bégin in Saint-Mandé (Val-de-Marne), the HIA Legouest in Metz (Moselle), the HIA Robert Picqué in Villenave-d'Ornon (Gironde) and HIA Sainte-Anne in Toulon (Var).
What is their role in vaccination?
They are called upon within the framework of the military operation Resilience, launched in March 2020 by Emmanuel Macron, which makes it possible to mobilize resources "devoted to aid and support to populations, as well as to support to public services for face the epidemic, in metropolitan France and overseas ”.
These soldiers notably participated in the establishment of a field hospital in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) offering 30 additional beds during the first epidemic wave, in the transfers of patients, but also, more recently, in the delivery of freezers in Overseas France in recent weeks.
Who can get vaccinated there?
"All the public eligible for vaccination can make an appointment", explains to the Parisian the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
As a reminder, the over 75s, healthcare professionals and those over 50 with co-morbidities are concerned.
This operation also aims to reduce waiting lists, as explained to us by the Ministry of the Armed Forces.
"A certain number of patients concerned by the vaccination this weekend were already identified at the local level and registered on the lists of people to be vaccinated in the short term", specifies the General Staff.
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Once these people were notified, other slots were opened to online reservation.
This was not the case before this operation which is "one-off", recalls the ministry.
Result: this Saturday noon, there was no longer any appointment possible.
"This measure was very effective, we congratulate ourselves on the side of the military".
In total, several hundred HIA vaccinations will be performed over the weekend.
The various vaccines used in France were issued by public service hospitals.
While we do not know exactly the number of agents mobilized in these four HIAs, the General Staff blows that around fifty additional staff are deployed at the HIA Bégin in Saint-Mandé (Val-de-Marne ).
