How will the new vaccine measures, announced yesterday by Olivier Véran, be applied in Limousin? Will health professionals be able to afford the third dose? Doctor Pierre Bourras, President of the Council of the Order of Doctors of Haute-Vienne, was the guest of France Bleu Limousin this Friday. “At the beginning, we lacked doses, we lacked masks, we did not have the organization“, he explained, and”there, it will be difficult, because there is a _major bottleneck_, people realize it on Doctolib, but there are many more actors who are involved, and with a little order we can manage to vaccinate everyone “.
He notably asked “to people who can move easily, to young people, to go instead to vaccination centers, to make room in pharmacies, doctors and nurses for the elderly“.
We work just in time, we have enough doses but there are no reserves
But do the city doctors really have the doses necessary for a new vaccination campaign of such a large scale so rapid? “_We work just in time, we have enough doses but we are always at the mercy of a non-arrival_, there are no reservations“has also detailed Pierre Bourras, estimating that the problems of resupply”have never been perfect, but the population had no difficulty getting vaccinated“.
Olivier Véran also called on Thursday doctors and the medical professions to continue their work of conviction with patients, to be vaccinated. “We are on fears and unreasonable attitudes, but there has never been an epidemic where there have not been unreasonable things and fear“, commented the President of the Order of Doctors of Haute-Vienne, explaining that”there is a part of people who are really afraid for them, there is a part of conspiracy, there is a small part of people who think that it is a gesture against the government; it goes beyond medicine, we are not reasonable“.
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Finally, Pierre Bourras reiterated that it was appropriate in his eyes, for the elderly, to “group the vaccine with the flu vaccine“, and called for the great return of barrier gestures.”It’s very nice to kiss people, to shake hands, but you have to be friendly without it“he concluded.