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  • In Montpellier, the ARS indicates that the Lapeyronie hospital and the on-call medical center are operational to vaccinate priority people with Covid-19.

  • This Thursday, the communities offered to help the campaign.

  • Thus, gymnasiums, homes for all and fire stations will be able to accommodate vaccinations in the coming days.

On the Covid-19 vaccination campaign, the state seems to have passed the second.

After residents of nursing homes, health professionals, firefighters and home helpers aged over 50 or with co-morbidities are invited to lend a helping hand.

And vaccination sites are flourishing.

About thirty have opened in Occitania.

In Montpellier, for the moment, the CHU Lapeyronie and the medical center on call are operational.

In the other large towns of the department, people authorized to be vaccinated can go to the public and international vaccination center of the city of Béziers, the Covid-19 Center in Sète, and the multidisciplinary health center of Lodève, indicates the Occitanie Regional Health Agency, which launched on Wednesday a "call for the mobilization of all local actors, local authorities also having a very important role to play".

Firefighters on the bridge

The call was heard: this Thursday, in Montpellier, the city and the metropolis, the department of Hérault and the Occitanie region offered to the State, with one voice, a helping hand to speed up the process. .

Kléber Mesquida, the president (PS) of the department, offers to the State to make available the 48 sports halls of the colleges, of which 11 are in the metropolis of Montpellier.

“There are parking lots, it's accessible, there are ancillary premises,” notes the elected official.

There is all the device that would allow these vaccinations.

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To these gymnasiums, the department proposes to add the 70 fire stations of Hérault.

This solution of premises scattered throughout the Hérault, says Kléber Mesquida, would be the assurance of having perfect coverage of the territory.

“Because it is not possible for a million inhabitants to go to Montpellier or Béziers to be vaccinated,” he notes.

In addition, he suggests that the 150 doctors and 200 nurses, professionals and volunteers, of the department, already deployed to test, lend a hand to vaccinate, as they had done during the H1N1 flu.

Cold rooms and freezers to store vaccines

Kléber Mesquida also indicates that the cold room of the departmental veterinary laboratory and the XXL freezers of the Hérault firefighters can be requisitioned to store large quantities of doses.

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For its part, the city of Montpellier will open its vaccination center, but also promises other places, which have not yet been defined, "which can be the Homes for All, the gymnasiums, the test centers that we have. implemented ”, indicates Fanny Dombre-Coste (PS), deputy mayor, who ensures that all the mayors of the metropolis are ready to invest in their municipalities.

The city also proposes to make municipal agents available to the campaign alongside health professionals.

It is up to the State, from now on, to seize the outstretched hand of communities.

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