In the meeting room of the hospital of Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (North), this Saturday, the inhabitants who have just been vaccinated go on forever more than necessary.
“Normally, they have to stay 15-20 minutes after the injection, under surveillance.
But there, they stayed much longer, it was almost necessary to ask them to leave ”, does not return Michel Thumerelle, the director of the hospital center.
Because they had a good reason to stay.
For the first time, a quartet from the music school of the city of 16,000 souls, closed for many weeks, came to animate and entertain people being vaccinated.
They are 300 on average every weekend.
"This allows us to send the message, via word of mouth, that this moment is not so distressing", presents the director, who will renew the operation in partnership with the town hall, this Saturday, with the coming from a flautist.
Vaccination day at the CH Saint Amand les Eaux but in music 🥳
Posted by Center Hospitalier de Saint Amand les Eaux on Sunday, April 11, 2021
An original initiative, far from the debate on the vaccine passport, the other incentive for vaccination.
And that seems to work.
“When we offer 60 appointments, they are booked in ten minutes,” observes the hospital director.
In Rouen Métropole, 500,000 inhabitants, it is the mayor and president, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol (PS), who took the guitar on Saturday to animate his VaccinArena, which will be able to do 2,000 vaccinations per day at the end of the month.
Artists and public happy to meet again
Here, artists, mostly students and amateurs, can come and share their music and are paid in vouchers in local businesses.
A "carrot strategy" which does not hide the chosen one.
“There is clearly an incentive effect.
We saw concern in our vaccination centers, which are not very welcoming.
There, people leave with a smile, ”appreciates the city councilor, an amateur musician, who therefore opened the ball in his usual sports hall.
A piano has also been made available, like the stations, just like in Arras (Pas-de-Calais).
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But when the places are more cramped, as in Hirson (Aisne), where the dance hall has been requisitioned for the entire canton, we can still "put attractive elements".
The village has indeed contacted the 16 local painters who were to exhibit at an annual fair which could not be held in October 2020. “In the boxes for doctors, on the walls, in the corridors, you find 86 portraits, landscapes, watercolors or abstract canvases.
A general practitioner told us that he preferred to vaccinate in this context, here, rather than in his office, ”welcomes Bernard Vilain, the director general of services.
For the first time in months, the artists themselves came to hang their works.
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Because this entertainment, for an audience that has not been able to see a museum or concert for months, is also saving for cultural actors.
“I haven't experienced any applause or thanks since March 2020, it's very warm and pleasant.
We are reaching a new audience that is less used to it, ”enthuses Yane Corfa, contemporary dancer with the Carré Blanc company in the Gers.
They may have occurred in three vaccination centers.
Since the beginning of March, the department of Gers has asked the Departmental Association for the Development of the Arts (Adda) to involve artists in eight of the 12 vaccination centers.
Contemporary dancers from the Gers were once again able to hear thanks for their first public performance in over a year.
It was at the vaccination center.
Departmental Council of Gers Departmental Council of Gers
"The public eligible for vaccination are those who attend these exhibitions, usually plays," said the office of the president of the departmental council, where we are pleased to have 18.6% of the adult population vaccinated. , compared to 16% in France.
The promotion of primeur stopped by threats
And when the turn of the youngest comes, there is no doubt that the exceptional or original places for vaccination will be attractive.
Accessing the Orange Velodrome stadium in Marseille, the Stade de France in Saint-Denis or Disneyland Paris is a rare opportunity that can be motivating to get stung.
The national velodrome of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines where the French track cycling team trains, which also has a small robot to distract, is proof of this.
The music that resonates again in the nightclub of Moncoutant in Deux-Sèvres, which has become a vaccination center, is also very successful, as reported by France Bleu.
But mobilizing actions do not always go as planned.
Like Beijing (China), which offers vegetables or eggs to vaccinated people, Huseyin Uyar, a scoop from Nancy, offered a 20% reduction for any presentation of a vaccination certificate.
“The important thing is to make a small gesture so that we find a normal life.
Caregivers and retirees all came here, rejoices this local figure.
I had to quit because of thousands of threats and complaints against me.
They wanted to burn my shop down, I was harassed.
I want to protect my family and my employees ”, deplores the trader, who also received a visit from the fraud repression“ who had nothing to say ”.
In the meantime, this model of health culture alliance to motivate the French could be extended.
In Dijon (Côte-d'Or), blood donation, still in short supply of donors, has relocated to the Museum of Fine Arts to refuel, tells France 3. Further to the east, in Strasbourg, the slots were taken by storm thanks to the offer of a donation of blood, a ticket for the museum offered.
