- The coronavirus vaccination campaign started this week in nursing homes in Brittany.
Resident at the Ehpad Hôtel-Dieu in Rennes, Serge was the first person to be vaccinated this Tuesday afternoon in Ille-et-Vilaine.
Four vaccination centers have just been installed in the main Breton hospitals to vaccinate health professionals.
His name is Serge, a 67 years old and lives at the Ehpad Hôtel- God of Rennes University Hospital. Ten days after Mauricette , first person vaccinated in France against the Covid – 19 , the 60-year-old received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Tuesday afternoon in Ille-et-Vilaine . “It is better to prevent than to cure,” he assured full of enthusiasm under the lens of the photographers. It’s like the flu, if we can, we might as well seek treatment ”. A few minutes later, it was a health professional, Professor Dominique Somme, head of the geriatric medicine department at the Rennes University Hospital, who was vaccinated by a nurse somewhat intimidated by the cameras which had come to immortalize the scene.
Head of the geriatric medicine department at the CHU, Professor Dominique Somme was also vaccinated this Tuesday afternoon. – J. Gicquel / 19 Minutes
While the Government, under the criticism, announced this Tuesday a whole series of measures to speed up vaccinations , the campaign is just starting this week in several French regions. This is the case in Brittany where the first injections were administered to around thirty residents
of the Saint-Renan nursing home near Brest (Finistère).
A stock of 25. doses available for the moment
In all, there are fourteen pilot sites, nine Ehpad and five long-term care units, which were selected by the health authorities to launch this first phase of the vaccination campaign in the region. “The strategy adopted is to vaccinate as a priority the elderly in collective structures or health professionals with more than 26 years old or with comorbid disorders ”, specifies Stéphane Mulliez, director of the Agency Regional Health Authority (ARS) of Brittany.
In the coming weeks, the vaccination will extend to 415 Breton Ehpads with a stock of 20.
. doses of anti-Covid vaccine currently available in the region, carefully stored in four super-freezers at – 75 ° C. “It is sufficient for the moment with a restocking which will be done gradually for the seconds injections ”, specifies the director of ARS Bretagne.