While the government wants to boost the vaccination campaign so that a million people receive an injection by the end of January, pharmacies are offering to get involved.

While waiting for the green light from the executive, some pharmacies are already preparing their device.

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Between a section of hand creams and one of throat lozenges, a small door is marked "confidentiality room".

Inside there is a fridge "where you can keep the doses", explains one of the pharmacists.

This Rambouillet pharmacy is ready to participate in the coronavirus vaccination campaign.

However, like a large part of the profession, she awaits the green light from the health authorities. 

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"We have demonstrated the involvement of pharmacists in the management of the crisis"

During a press conference with the Prime Minister on Thursday, Olivier Véran said he was aiming for a "cruising speed" of "several tens of thousands" of injections per day in order to register one million vaccinations by the end January.

Trained for two years in vaccination, at the time against the flu, pharmacists could help achieve this goal.

"We even considered expanding the premises a little to be able to double our capacity for people to vaccinate," explains Murielle Seguin, who works in this Rambolitan pharmacy.

800 people have been vaccinated there against the flu in recent winters. 

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Associating pharmacists with the vaccine strategy is a question of logic for Renaud Nadjahi, the boss of the dispensary.

"I believe that we have demonstrated the involvement of the pharmacist in the management of the health crisis. Starting from masks, through antigenic tests and now vaccination. I believe, I hope, that this possibility will be given also to pharmacists. "

Her clients are of the same opinion, as the one who waits for the result of an antigen test asserts: "I am completely for it. I trust my pharmacist as much as my doctor."

"Accelerate and facilitate the patient journey"

"When we are lucky to have such a dense pharmaceutical network, close to patients, without demographic deficit - because we are present in all the villages, even in difficult areas where there is no doctor, we must 'support this network! ", insists Gilles Bonnefond, the president of the Union of trade unions of dispensing pharmacists.

"We have the know-how. We will speed up and facilitate the patient's journey. When you are over 75, you are told not to go to places where there are a lot of people, to avoid going out too much, and there, we would like to send them from January 18 to 'vaccinodromes', where we would concentrate the population. This is nonsense compared to what we have been advocating for months for the elderly. it's much more diluted and it helps to avoid concentration, ”he concludes.