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29 January 2021

Vaccination: first doses administered

The Village

In a relaxed atmosphere among the Villagers, two teams from the establishment were at work all day on Wednesday, January 27 to vaccinate 97 residents and 40 professionals against Covid-19.

 

Organized in two groups of four (one doctor, two nurses and one administrative), the teams in charge of vaccination are spread over both sides of the Village: Chalosse and Bas-Armagnac districts in the East for some, Haute-Lande and the Atlantic Coast in the West for the others. The work is methodical: one prepares the doses while two others take the constants -temperature, blood pressure and pulsations- of the inhabitants who are waiting their turn. Then the injection. In their bedroom or in front of the living room TV... the important is to be comfortable. Once the data entry is made, the team moves on to the next! Focused on not wasting a drop of the precious liquid, nurse Sylvie Goul confides in having dreamed of it the night before: “I put the pressure on myself: for me it's very important to be as efficient as possible and to extract each dose at best." At the Village Landais, 97 residents were vaccinated on that day. Those who are not have sometimes already been vaccinated elsewhere, are at the end of their life, or come under one of the contraindications detailed by Dr Daniel Falcinelli: "This vaccination is very supervised and the recommendations of the ARS are clear: people who have had the Covid within three months, who have been in contact, who have had another vaccine within 14 days, who suffer from an inflammatory, infectious state or severe allergies cannot be vaccinated." Very few categorical refusals were recorded.

92.6% of residents agreed to be vaccinated

 

Gloria Dorval, Department representative for the canton of Dax2 and Paul Carrère, vice-president of the Landes Department Council delegated to Solidarity, came to support the teams at this crucial moment. The elected official, delighted to recognize the faces of nurses and caregivers met during the fifty or so recruitment panels he chaired in September 2019, underlines the strong participation in this campaign: “More than 90% is a really excellent rate vaccination that is also observed in several other EHPAD in the Landes. I think this demonstrates the climate of trust that the professional teams have managed to create with the Villagers. It’s very satisfying."

A positive state of mind in the households: in n ° 13, while waiting for the preparation of the doses, Danielle, 85, throws her roommates into an improvised choir. In the end, it was the song "Etoile de Neiges" that managed to relax even the most fearful of stings.

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