A decree published in the Official Journal on Thursday July 8 opens the possibility for opticians, dieticians and audioprosthetists to be able to vaccinate against Covid-19.
- The objective of allowing them to vaccinate is to compensate for the departures on vacation of other health professionals.
- Health professionals, especially in rural areas, are calling for going even further and allowing home vaccination for all.
The list of professions authorized to vaccinate is expanding. Opticians, dieticians, audioprosthetists, dieticians, psychomotricians, and dental assistants join physiotherapists, nursing assistants or even paramedics. This opening emanates from a decree, published in Official newspaper this Thursday, which also advises to carry out a rapid serological test before being vaccinated to find out if you have already contracted the virus without knowing it.
Compensate for departures on vacation
For these professionals, vaccination must be carried out “under the responsibility of a doctor who can intervene at any time and on condition”. They must also have “followed a specific training to carry out this act”. The objective of allowing them to vaccinate is to compensate for the departures on vacation of other health professionals.
#Vaccination #COVID19 | As of July 8:
✔35,333,191 people received a first injection
✔26,302,376 people have a complete vaccination schedule– Ministry of Solidarity and Health (@Sante_Gouv) July 8, 2021
As a reminder, some patients can also be vaccinated at home. This authorization comes from the High Authority for Health (HAS), which gave the 130,000 private nurses the possibility of being able to vaccinate their patients against Covid-19 at home without the compulsory presence of a doctor. This only concerns people aged 55 to 69 inclusive – whether or not they suffer from comorbidities or a pathology at very high risk of a severe form of Covid-19 – as well as those over 70, sometimes limited in their movements.
Let the vaccine go to the people
Health professionals, especially in rural areas, are calling for going even further and allowing home vaccination for all. “To go towards” and no longer “to bring in”, that is, in a nutshell, what they want. Their goal is to go ever further in vaccination to break the glass ceiling of a recalcitrant public. “We can catch up (vaccination), but we have to put the rubber on, said Philippe Juvin, head of emergencies at the Pompidou Hospital on France Inter, this Wednesday. The vaccine must go to people: in companies, on the beaches, and at home (…) That, we did not organize it enough.
The target population is “peripheral France, rural France, France excluded from digital”, explains Patrick Chamboredon, president of the National Order of Nurses in Figaro. To these are added the 6 million French people who do not have a doctor and find themselves outside the vaccination circuit, which represents a total of nearly 10 million people likely to extend the list of vaccinated against Covid-19.
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