Firefighters in Deux-Sèvres are surveying circuit routes to provide vaccinations to people who are isolated or unable to travel. They turned an old ambulance into a mobile vaccination unit.
Follow those who cannot travel to get vaccinated. The Deux-Sèvres firefighter decided to act. They have converted an old ambulance into a mobile vaccination unit and are navigating the department’s roads. They go to meet old people who do not have the opportunity to travel and vaccinate them.
Deux-Sèvres firefighters’ vaccination unit
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This mission is the result of cooperation between the Provincial Health Agency, District Council, Fire and Rescue Service and the Red Cross.
In the fire brigade ambulance, a doctor and a nurse from the Red Cross carry out vaccinations. Then, as after each injection, the patient should be monitored for approximately fifteen minutes to deal with the possible reaction. If necessary, the patient can be taken in the ambulance. “It perpetuates what we used to do by going to people’s homes,” explains Dr. Alan Bouton, the volunteer doctor for the Red Cross in Niort. Especially since going to the vaccination center is impossible for many people
The people who come to be vaccinated in so-called rural areas are socially isolated people, and sometimes they are unable to move.
This is confirmed by this patient who received the first dose of the vaccine thanks to this mobile unit.
I can’t move around anymore, I find it hard to walk, so that’s more of my job, yeah.
Firefighters call town halls to find out who among the residents will volunteer for vaccinations. Before the injection, patients sign a consent document. They also have a history of their second injection.
On Wednesday, the mobile unit was able to carry out 14 initial injections of the vaccine.
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