• Nantes town hall is launching a new device with the aim of reaching people "far from the vaccine".

  • Until early November, a vaccination center will move to several areas of the city.

Salima walks slowly. "Is it here to get the vaccine?" My social worker advised me to come… ”Since Wednesday, the house of residents and citizens, Bellevue district in Nantes, has been transformed into an ephemeral vaccination center. For three afternoons, with or without an appointment, residents who so wish can come for information or receive their injection (the capacity is at least 150 per day), in a few minutes and in a place they know. all. “The objective is to reach out to people far from the vaccine, who are also often care in general,” indicates Marlène Collineau, health assistant at the town hall of Nantes. There is still some leeway. "

Lack of information, questions, difficulties in getting to the Beaujoire vaccinodrome, but also in making an appointment online… The reasons put forward by these “latecomers” are numerous.

Jean-Paul, he “still has doubts about the effectiveness of the vaccine” but decided to take the plunge on a whim this Wednesday afternoon.

“I was walking around and I walked past,” says the 60-year-old.

I took it as a fluke!

"Husne, who had an appointment for the second dose of his daughter Ilayda, welcomes the initiative:" I think it will decide other people in the neighborhood, says the mother of the family.

Look at my sister-in-law, she canceled her date three times because she was too scared!

There, it is immediately less complicated ... "

The device intended to shoot in eight neighborhoods

If some Nantes people crossed this afternoon come from a little further away (it was the first time slot available on Doctolib), the town hall already sees "a success" in this device, which must run in different working-class neighborhoods until the start. The team, made up of a doctor, six nurses and as many municipal agents, will return to Bellevue a second time for the second dose. In the meantime, it is expected in the Malakoff, Nantes-Nord, Breil, Bottière, Nantes-sud, Dervallières and Ile-de-Nantes districts. Each time, associations, pharmacists and general practitioners will be called upon to spread the word. Anti-Covid mediators will also roam the neighborhoods with this mission.

One way of trying to increase the vaccination rate of the department, which has struggled to progress lately as elsewhere in France.

In Loire-Atlantique, 83% of those over 12 have received at least one injection, and they are 77% to have a complete vaccination schedule, indicates the Regional Health Agency, which now advocates for this “tailor-made” solution.

What also to consider the upcoming closure of the Beaujoire vaccinodrome (45,000 injections per week against 100,000 at the peak), which will be transferred in early October to the Nantes Erdre room.

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