Will there be enough self-test to screen our children? Since Tuesday, you no longer need antigenic tests after a case of covid in your child’s class, you will have to do it instead three self-tests (at J0-J2-J4).
The health protocol in schools continues to evolve, it is lightened to the third time in seven days. A relaxation of the government to avoid long queues in front of pharmacies.
The adaptability of our pharmacists is not unlimited – Frédéric Lalegerie, president of the Savoie pharmacists’ union
The protocol too much
In pharmacies, health professionals do their best to screen as much as possible but “it shouldn’t last too long” launches this Chambéry pharmacist who already performs more than 120 tests per day.
For Frédéric Lalegerie, president of the pharmacists union of Savoie, this is the protocol too many: “We try to adapt each time, but honestly, the colleagues are really at their wit’s end, in the sense that we test a lot. And in addition to that, there is still our work as a pharmacist, prescriptions which continue. We do not yet have the protocol for the delivery of these three self-tests. It is a bit that which is really exhausting for all my colleagues, we should have a policy which is a little more stable. I do not know not if we’re going to be able to adapt like that for very long. ”
“It’s unmanageable, when does it stop?”
Professionals are adapting as best they can to meet demand, but for parents, we are starting to no longer be able to keep up, just a week after the start of the school year.
Sarah is a mother of a Savoyard family. Financially, mentally, physically, she’s on the verge of implosion : “Since the beginning of the year it’s constantly changing, so nobody has time to adapt, it becomes stressful and tiring for the children because the teachers are also stressed, which I can understand. there are a lot of parents who run after the self-tests “.
The other problem is financial for Sarah even if the first three self-tests are free if the child is in contact: “We are starting to have an enormous cost between the masks, the gel, the self-tests and the work we lose in running, in picking up our children from school. Carrying out tests means days and half-days of leave that we lose too. It starts to do a lot. “
Almost all teachers’ unions are calling a strike this Thursday, January 13 to protest against the health protocol at school, we expect 75% of strikers and half of schools closed according to the first primary school union.