While the launch of the vaccination campaign in France was marked by a severe lack of vaccines, 6,000 doses had been dormant since February in a University Hospital in Tours.
This is what the France Bleu Touraine report explains, explaining that these doses had been specially ordered by the Regional Health Agency (ARS) for the use of nursing staff.
However, most of them did not want it: some refused the vaccination, while others favored another type of serum.
As AstraZeneca injection was subsequently reserved for over 55s, the thousands of doses remained cool, unused.
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According to France Bleu, several city doctors have asked to use them for their patients. Impossible thing: administratively, the mention is formal, these doses are reserved for the nursing staff of the CHU. And the declassification has still not been done. "
It is an aberration of more of the French administration
", rebelled a general practitioner, affirming to have "
difficult to understand the logic
" while the health authorities constantly encourage to accelerate the pace.
The AstraZeneca vaccine, which is struggling to regain the confidence of the French in the face of the risk of thrombosis, is not at its first quack around delivery or management of doses. To limit losses, the President of the Republic announced that the injections will be open, from May 12, to over 18s when a slot will be released the day before for the next day, on the appointment booking platforms like Doctolib. "
Y ou can look at the available doses the day before (...) and if there are, where you are, doses available the next day
"
,
explained the Head of State, "
not to that we waste any dose whatsoever
”.