After a recruitment campaign organized by the Toulouse University Hospital, hundreds of students have obtained a student job in the city's vaccinodrome, which is about to open 7 days a week. These students are paid for carrying out administrative tasks. , reception or care according to their profile.

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This is the most popular student job in the entire Toulouse region: getting hired at the local vaccinodrome.

The Samu had the idea of ​​recruiting students to allow staff mobilized for months against the Covid-19 to breathe, while allowing young people to earn a living, they who have been severely affected by the crisis.

And the places are snapped up in a few minutes.

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"We will get by thanks to the youth"

Doctor Julie Oudet calls in front of an auditorium of 220 students. These "piou-piou" registered via Twitter for this training to work all summer at the vaccinodrome. "Welcome to PiouPiouLand", launches Julie Oudet. "I invite you to watch

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d'Hitchcock. The image of the 'Piou-Piou', that's it, it's the birds against the Covid". And these "piou-piou" are far from being only medical students.

"The students are over-motivated. They have their own skills to transport the doses from one area to another, there is no need to have completed six years of medicine", explains Julie Oudet at the microphone of Europe 1 "To do certain secretarial tasks, there are people who will be much more competent than medical or pharmacy students," she continues.

"We're going to get by with the youth."

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"It was an opportunity to go to the front"

"It is a training which interests me enormously, whether it is to vaccinate or to help in the logistics", affirms Anaïs, student in second year of medicine.

Philemon, he studies computer science, but he wanted to participate: "I want to work this summer and as the president was able to say: 'We are at war'. It was the opportunity to go to the front", he said, adding that the mission is also "fairly well paid."

At the end of this training, all these young people will be able to take over from the firefighters, hospital staff, associations mobilized on the vaccinodrome, and participate in the new hall which will open at the beginning of June and should make it possible to double the daily vaccination capacities.