Accelerate the vaccination campaign: the objective is hammered out on all tones at the top of the State.
A crucial battle for Emmanuel Macron, in which the army intends to take part.
With, from Tuesday, "the permanent opening of vaccination centers in seven military hospitals," said Minister Florence Parly in a press release.
In the hospitals Bégin (Saint-Mandé), Percy (Clamart), Sainte-Anne (Toulon), Clermont-Tonnerre (Brest), among others, military doctors and nurses, reservists, will be mobilized with the aim of allowing “d 'give up to 50,000 doses per week', when the daily average is currently around 300,000 injections.
Care will be left to the services of Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health, to determine which sera will be allocated to these new centers.
Centers deployed in regions lacking personnel
The army also stands ready "to deploy military vaccination centers in the regions, according to the needs expressed by the Ministry of Health".
Everyone has in mind the images of the emergency field hospital set up in Mulhouse (Bas-Rhin), with its 30 resuscitation beds, at the height of the first wave in the Grand-Est region.
This time, these are buildings, military or not, such as gymnasiums, canteens, premises in regiments, or even tents if necessary, which could be rearranged in areas suffering from pain in the arms to administer vaccines.
In what proportions?
Everything will depend on the number of centers installed in the end and, the real nerve of the war, on the number of doses that could be delivered there.
However, some experts in the matter estimate that this contribution could make it possible to reach more than 100,000 weekly vaccinations.
“The challenge now is the speed of vaccination.
This is how we will come out of the epidemic, ”insists the Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, to the Parisian.
A huge challenge and stake for the executive.
After a year of crisis, and while his strategy in this area continues to be criticized after a sluggish start, Emmanuel Macron is betting more than ever on the vaccine to stop the third wave of the epidemic.
Another crucial point, at a time when caregivers keep ringing the alarm bell, that of resuscitation capacities.
The army will be able to go from 90 to 100 beds.
A competition mentioned by Emmanuel Macron, Wednesday evening in his speech, which then set, overall, an ambitious goal and raising doubts among health professionals: "Bring in the coming days our capacity to a little over 10,000 beds" in intensive care.
