While 80% of nursing home residents have received a first dose of the vaccine against Covid-19, those in the senior services residence Les jardins d'Arcadie in Bordeaux are still waiting to see the arrival of the vials promised since December.
On Friday, about fifty residents demonstrated in front of their residence to demand their vaccine.
In Bordeaux, an unexpected rally took place.
Residents of a non-medical center in Bordeaux, aged 86 on average, protested on Friday against the non-receipt of doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
With their walkers, or their sticks, some unfolded a banner while others hung a sign on their wheelchair.
"Me, I did that in 1968, I had never done it since. It gave me a boost of youth", loose Jeanne, one of the residents, at the microphone of Europe 1.
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Jeanne called for the rally.
She is all the more indignant that everything seems ready to administer the vaccines, from the health center to the staff: "You bring us the vaccines tomorrow morning and tomorrow evening, everyone is vaccinated", she storms.
The only way to break the isolation
"My daughters come with the mask, we see each other from afar, and my grandchildren haven't come for a year," sighs Geneviève.
"It's painful, we now want it to stop," she adds, arguing that vaccination is the only way to break isolation.
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Residents thought they had priority and that bottles would be delivered to them as in nursing homes.
But at the end of January it is disappointment: they will finally have to find a meeting.
"We missed the niche," exclaims Marc.
"Since then, every morning, the first thing I do is go around the ten vaccination sites in Bordeaux to find out if there isn't one that would be released to have a place!"
Of the 150 residents, 110 want to be vaccinated.
The Prefecture of Gironde has promised to quickly find them doses.