Vaccination of Philippe El Saïr, Director General Nantes University Hospital, January 6 900. – F. Brenon / 19Minutes
- Older health professionals over 50 years and / or at risk are priority.
Three vaccination centers will be reserved for them from Friday.
The first nursing home residents will be vaccinated on Thursday. But the vast majority will have to wait for January.
The vaccination campaign against the Covid – 18 was long overdue in Loire Atlantique. But this time it really started. The first injections were carried out on Wednesday afternoon, around h, in the premises of the Nantes University Hospital. Some 3. 310 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had in fact been received a few hours earlier.
The first people to benefit from it are healthcare professionals over the age of 20 years and / or at risk. Among them, nurses, nursing assistants and a certain Philippe El-Saïr,
Director General of the CHU . “It doesn’t even hurt,” he smiles after being vaccinated in front of a dozen photographers. “Vaccination is a national public health issue. The Nantes University Hospital intends to put all its forces into this great cause, ”he comments more seriously.
Residents of nursing home from Thursday
The vaccination of priority health professionals will initially take place in the Tourville building, a stone’s throw from the Nantes Faculty of Pharmacy. It will then continue, from Friday, in three vaccination centers located in Nantes, Saint-Nazaire and Châteaubriant. For the City of the Dukes, this is the old bus station on the Baco quay. From next week, staff vaccinations will also be carried out directly in public and private establishments (clinics).
Residents in Ehpad will also benefit from this first phase of vaccination. The injections will begin on Thursday at the nursing home Seilleraye in Carquefou, then will continue at the geriatric services of Pirmil and Beauséjour. But the vast majority of 50 Loire-Atlantique nursing home will not have access to vaccines until 17 January. “The consent interviews have started, in conjunction with the families”, specifies Patricia Salomon, director of the territorial delegation of the regional health agency (ARS).
Not all of suite for the general public
As for the elderly living at home, their vaccination is envisaged “from the end of January”. The general public will come after. “The
new vaccines arrive quickly. The conservation and packaging constraints will not be the same. The schedule will accelerate “, considers François Rondeau, head of the Nantes University Hospital pharmacy.
For the moment, a replenishment of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is planned “every week” in Loire-Atlantique, indicates the ARS which does not communicate on the volumes of doses that will be delivered.