"Is this the vaccines here?"
How it works ?
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Looking lost and a little desperate, this old gentleman walks into a Boulogne-Billancourt pharmacy thinking he can get vaccinated there.
A little jaded, a trainer sends him back to the Doctolib platform but the man does not understand.
“Docto… what?
"
The scene is representative of a now common situation.
One month after the expansion of the vaccine campaign against Covid-19 to people over 75 years old and people at risk, thousands of elderly people, however priority, are going through a real hardship to benefit from a first injection of Pfizer- BioNTech.
In Bagneux, for example, instead of rushing to the first outpatient vaccination centers opened a month ago, many seniors preferred to wait for the scheduled opening of a center in their town on January 25.
Missed.
The village hall, always ready to host a vaccination service just in case, has never opened.
"I called the toll-free number several times and they sent me to Caen"
As a result, many Balneolais find themselves on the floor ... or with rather eccentric meeting proposals.
“I called the toll free number several times and I was sent to Caen once.
I obviously did not go.
Today, we have nowhere for the next 28 days, ”laments Nicole, 77, member of the Cannes brandies Committee formed by seniors from Bagneux, who campaign with humor for the application of their rights. to get vaccinated and more transparency.
In the Hauts-de-Seine and on February 18, 20,524 people received a first injection in the twelve vaccination centers open since January 18.
3,178 received a second dose for a total of 23,702 injections.
A low proportion when we know that the department has 122,646 people over 75 years (19%).
But to qualify since the centers accommodate all priority people without distinction of place of residence, therefore not only inhabitants of Hauts-de-Seine.
An organization that puzzles Nicole.
The septuagenarian has all the more difficulty swallowing the pill that she feels aggrieved compared to the inhabitants of other municipalities.
“When I learned that Neuilly had obtained 500 doses for a week
(Editor's note: that of February 8)
and that we still did not have a center, I was scandalized.
I even wrote to the prefect!
Now I give up but I'm furious.
"
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Same feeling of injustice in Catherine, who has been trying desperately to vaccinate her 92-year-old dad for several weeks.
“We have a center in our city, which cannot be used, whereas in Neuilly, they had plenty of doses.
We are sent to Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines) and I even have a friend who we wanted to send to Marseille!
(Bouches-du-Rhône).
It's scandalous !
"
A rebalancing operated by the prefecture
On the side of the prefecture, we are trying to calm things down. "The centers now have their allocations until the end of March," recalls Sandra Guthlebent, the chief of staff of the prefect.
For the first dose, we rebalanced, those who had less in February will have more in March and vice versa.
Today there is visibility over several weeks.
I think the situation will ease.
"
However, the twelve municipal centers currently have no appointment availability for the next 28 days.
According to the Doctolib site, each structure will vaccinate from 278 to more than 2,000 people, depending on the city, until that date.
In institutions for dependent elderly people, on the other hand, the situation does not seem so tense.
“There is a high rate of coverage in nursing homes.
More than 80% of the eligible population has been vaccinated there ”, specifies the prefecture.
In total in the department, 100,323 injections were carried out, including health personnel and residents of nursing homes who obtained the second dose of the vaccine.
Regarding the 44 autonomous residences in the territory, the vaccination campaign is due to start on March 1.
"Some of the residents have already been vaccinated with the help of their families," notes the Hauts-de-Seine departmental council.
Now, the prefecture is working on its strategy of targeting precarious elderly people.
Upstream work has started with the municipalities and the department.
These people identified via the CCAS and the CPAM will be vaccinated at home from March 1 as well.
