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Valentin Sprinchak / TASS / Sipa USA / SIPA
Vaccination against Covid-19 will begin Sunday in France, as throughout the European Union, and will not be mandatory, according to the government.
The opportunity for a group of senators to write to Olivier Véran to suggest different avenues to “improve vaccine coverage” against Covid-19.
This letter, written by Bruno Belin (senator from Vienne, also a pharmacist) and co-signed by more than 70 of his colleagues, most of them Republicans, proposes “first and foremost that any vaccination prescription should henceforth be reimbursed by the funds of 'health insurance and that the VAT on these products, the benefit of which is indisputable, be abolished ”.
"Generalize the electronic vaccination record"
Believing that "the preventive will always cost less than the curative", they also propose to "improve the follow-up that everyone must do of their own situation with regard to their immune coverage acquired through vaccination".
"Very often, many of our fellow citizens do not know where they stand with regard to their vaccination schedule, or even where their health record is".
But "keeping your vaccinations up to date is a public health issue", so they suggest "generalizing the electronic vaccination record".
Finally, according to them, we must "trust community pharmacists".
They therefore propose to the Minister to allow "the extension to dispensing pharmacists" to practice anti-Covid vaccinations, "like the success of the influenza vaccination".
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