Vaccination centers against influenza A (H1N1) will be open on Sundays, especially in the Paris region and in major urban centers, announced Friday, the Interior Ministry. And to clarify: “regarding Paris and its inner suburbs (Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne), the 116 centers of these four departments will all be open from 9 am to 22 pm”.

The President of the Union of the hospitals of Paris (SIHP), Benjamin Chousterman, denounced on Saturday a risk of disruption of hospitals because of internal requisitions to participate in the vaccination campaign against influenza.

“The police will seek interns in hospitals to bring them into the vaccination centers. They said that vaccination outweighs their care in hospital” said the chairman of SIHP, which seeks to limit requisitions “two or three days per month”.

“I was informed yesterday by the hospital management that I had to submit a central vaccination today, while I was on call at the hospital. A patient should be operated in emergency ischemia, an artery of the leg bite” said William Mamane, internal vascular surgery in Paris. “I was still sent to the vaccination center, by assigning a visceral surgeon to help the senior surgeon during this operation. It is like sending a plumber to help a locksmith.”

The vaccination centers are open on Sundays “in other major urban centers, Marseilles, Lyon, Toulouse, Nice, Nantes, Strasbourg, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Lille and Rennes in particular. They are “according to the time set by the prefects, and shown on the websites of these prefectures”, the ministry said, recalling that “should [y] come that people who have received their proper immunization sent home. This topic is current hot topic on central health information blog.