Régine, 71, is the first patient from the Toulouse University Hospital to be vaccinated on January 5 in Toulouse.

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B. Colin / 20 Minutes

  • The Toulouse University Hospital received its first 3,000 doses of vaccines on Tuesday and vaccinated around sixty residents and employees of the Garonne hospital.

  • This Wednesday, 17,000 new doses should arrive in Toulouse and will be distributed in nursing homes but also in the first vaccination centers set up in Rangueil and Purpan.

  • To break the dynamics of the circulation of the virus in the Toulouse metropolitan area, 90,000 people should be vaccinated by the end of February.

"I had an influenza virus at the age of 20 so I immediately accepted, it's necessary to be vaccinated, you have to go," Regine bluntly blurted out.

At 71, this resident of the long-term unit of the Garonne hospital of the Toulouse University Hospital was the first inhabitant of the Pink City to receive a dose of the anti-Covid vaccine on Tuesday.

In his wake, Professor Bruno Vellas, geriatrician at the Toulouse University Hospital, also readily lent himself to the injection game, aware of thus setting an example to caregivers who might be reluctant.

“The will of all healthcare professionals is to go very quickly.

Given the scale of the issue, we must speed up and give the 30 million French people who want to be vaccinated the opportunity to do so ”, insists the boss of the Gérontopôle who received one of the first of the 2,925 doses. received the same morning at the CHU.

First vaccination at @CHUdeToulouse Regine, 71, is the first resident of Garonne hospital in #Toulouse to do so pic.twitter.com/Zk0kyDJCg5

- 20 Minutes Toulouse (@ 20minutestoul) January 5, 2021

During the day, around sixty residents and caregivers over the age of 50 or frail had to be vaccinated, one more weapon to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

20,000 doses received

This campaign should take on another dimension this Wednesday.

The Toulouse University Hospital must in fact receive that day, 17,000 additional doses, distributed among its departments but also nursing homes and other hospitals in the department.

“Vaccination is an important protection benefit from severe forms of the disease.

The patients are more voluntary, the caregivers also because they are exposed and potentially vectors.

It is very reassuring for them who welcome a weakened public and it is the hope of a return to normal ”, assures Sophie Hermabessiere, the geriatrician of Régine.

To break the dynamics of the diffusion of the coronavirus in the Toulouse metropolitan area by the end of February, it will be necessary, according to the statistics of the virology laboratory of the CHU, to vaccinate at least 90,000 people.

"With the organization that we have put in place, we should achieve this," says Marc Penaud, its managing director.

From this Wednesday, two vaccination centers dedicated to health professionals will be open on the sites of the Rangueil and Purpan hospitals.

Next Monday, three other centers will also be deployed at the Larrey Hospital, within the Cité de la santé in La Grave and on the Oncopôle site.

“Within the CHU we have more than 4,000 staff over 50 years old and around 1,000 weakened out of the 16,000 employees.

We are going to set up an appointment system, open to the liberal professions, during which the pre-vaccination consultation takes place.

And registration requests are already numerous, ”says Marc Penaud.

Other centers should also emerge in sites outside the city, such as Saint-Gaudens.

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