In a column published in the Journal du Dimanche, the president of the general practitioners’ union MG France Jacques Battistoni asks the government to entrust liberal doctors “responsibility for the organization” of vaccination against Covid-19. Objective: to overcome the distrust of the populations.
- The president of the main union of general practitioners demands that liberal health professionals be responsible for the organization of vaccination at the local level.
- They also demand the creation of a “prevention” consultation in order to inform people at risk from December and of a tool for collecting data concerning injections.
While the government is due to present its strategy next week to deploy the vaccination of populations exposed to Covid-19 from the end of the year, liberal health professionals are pleading to be at the heart of the organization.
This is affirmed by Jacques Battistoni, president of the union of general practitioners MG France. In an interview given today to JDDthe doctor believes that “the responsibility of the organization” vaccination against Covid-19 must be planned “at the local level, in conjunction with local authorities”. And that liberal health professionals, including doctors, nurses and pharmacists, are the essential players.
“The government has learned the lessons of the vaccination fiasco in major centers in 2009 [contre la grippe H1N1]. He knows he can’t do without us; that if he does not apdon’t draw on city professionals, doctors, pharmacists or nurses, it will be guaranteed failure,” said Jacques Battistoni. “The operations should begin in January, with priority people. What we expect is simple: that liberal health professionals be entrusted with the responsibility of the organization at the local level, in connection with the local authorities”continues the president of MG France.
An essential “transparency”
The president of the first union of general practitioners asks the government for a total “transparency” to better manage vaccination in the field and reassure populations. “The authorities must quickly say everything they know and what they don’t know. Because, to hope to convince the French, you must first convince those who are going to vaccinate: us.”
According to him, this transparency requires the establishment of several structures. First, the creation of an “exhaustive collection of all the data related to vaccination (name of the patient, date of injection, references of the vaccinator and of the batch, etc.) by a new computer database”. Complementing the usual pharmacovigilance system, this database will, according to him, make it possible to better identify certain side effects of the vaccines that will be administered.
To restore patient confidence in vaccination, Jacques Battistoni finally pleads for the establishment of a “prevention consultation for people at risk, from December, to talk to them about the expected benefits of the vaccine and to help them know how to protect themselves during the holidays”.
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