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United Kingdom: volunteer vaccinators, one of the keys to the success of the vaccination campaign

2021-05-19T18:36:30.948Z


There are tens of thousands of them who have been trained to vaccinate, without necessarily having a medical qualification.


Hannah Lewis vividly remembers the first arm she pricked.

"I will never forget my first patient"

, assures this director of the beauty salon

Bridge beauty

, in Eastleigh, in the south of England.

“I was so nervous, but the pharmacist who accompanied me reassured me with a look and I did.

I felt a lot of adrenaline.

And then my nerves suddenly calmed down.

My first patient was adorable.

At the end, astonished, he said to me 'Oh it's already over?' ».

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Hannah Lewis is one of the 30,000 volunteers mobilized in the United Kingdom to help caregivers immunize the population.

The British government indeed amended the law in October 2020 in order to introduce new national protocols allowing an extended list of professionals to vaccinate.

Paramedics, chiropodists, nurses, medical students and dieticians, among others, can now take part in the vaccination campaign.

And that's not all.

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Source: lefigaro

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