A vaccination center in Montpellier, January 19.

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  • Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health, denounced as a "fable" the purchase of small equipment necessary for vaccination by municipalities.

  • In response, Florence Portelli, LR mayor of Taverly, in the Val d'Oise, explained that she had to provide syringes, needles or compresses.

  • A new pass of arms between the ministry and local elected officials, while associations of mayors demand more clarity on the role of each in the vaccination against Covid-19.

The mayors of Besançon and Dijon had already denounced the "deficiencies of the central state" on vaccination against Covid-19.

Martine Aubry denounced the lack of "transparency".

Tuesday, it was Florence Portelli, LR mayor of Taverny (Val d'Oise), who stepped up to the plate, explaining that she herself had to provide the small equipment, such as needles and compresses, necessary for the vaccination center installed since January 9 in his town.

In the morning, Olivier Véran had denounced a "fable" at the microphone of France Inter: "I was listening to the president of the Ile-de-France region [Valérie Pécresse, LR] yesterday morning on the radio, who told us a fable, totally, and who explained to us that the mayors were obliged to buy syringes and needles themselves, developed the Minister of Health, in response to a question on the dissatisfaction of local elected officials.

It is even more than false.

Maybe some mayors thought it would be up to them to do it, it can happen, but it is certainly not their job to do it.

It is the State services which provide all the vaccination material.

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The supply of this material is the responsibility of Public Health France, the public health agency under the Ministry of Health.

The agency * did not always initially provide adequate equipment: the Nice University Hospital thus received needles that were too short.

A purchase amounting to 800 euros

Florence Portelli does not intend to "throw stones" at the State or at the ARS, but reproaches Olivier Véran for his remarks.

At

20 Minutes

, the mayor and elected to the regional council of Île-de-France explains that doctors called her "in disaster" after the prefectural authorization to open the vaccination center.

"They told me, do we take out of our pocket" to pay for the equipment.

“Needles had to be found,” she adds, while global demand for this type of supply is strong.

According to the elected, the amount of these purchases of small equipment amounts to 800 euros, to which is added the purchase of two freezers.

The association of mayors of Île-de-France denounces a "vagueness"

Could the Taverny vaccine center be isolated?

In a letter sent to Olivier Véran on Wednesday, the association of mayors of Île-de-France (AMIF) denounces a "vagueness" and notes that "some municipalities had to provide small medical equipment (needles, compresses ...) for them. first center openings.

If Stéphane Beaudet, president of AMIF, elected to the regional council and mayor (without label, ex-LR) of Evry-Courcouronnes, where two vaccination centers are located, has not encountered this problem of supplies in his town , he does not rule out that this could have happened elsewhere.

The letter is the result of discussions between members of the board of directors, he

told 20 Minutes

“The municipalities do not have the health competence,” he reminds us.

As such, he wonders about several announcements or requests from the State: "When I hear the minister say, sworn spitting that they will call back all the people who could not have an appointment, is does that mean that it is our municipal administrations that will recall?

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The mayors of Île-de-France are not the only ones asking for a clearer sharing of roles in the management of vaccination.

The Association of Mayors of France (AMF) is following the same course.

"We are asking for visibility on what is the responsibility of the municipalities, explains

Frédéric Chéreau, socialist mayor of Douai and in charge of city-hospital relations at the AMF

, to

20 minutes

.

We always want there to be a margin of local autonomy, but that the State sets a course for us.

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* Contacted, the agency did not return our requests.

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