The Ministry of Solidarity and Health specifics, in a notice "DGS-urgent" signed by Jérôme Salomon and introduced on May 5, its new strategy for the distribution of surgical masks and FFP2, by extending it for the 1st time to get in touch with folks and men and women at quite high medical danger.
The Director Standard of Well being (DGS) sets a goal of weekly distribution of 100 million wellness masks, "modulo an adaptation every week depending on the reality of materials".
"Wellness pros see their general endowment boost," says the DGS. In addition, "from now on, individuals, make contact with people and persons at quite higher medical threat (for illustration severely immunocompromised people) also reward from these allocations".
As a result, for liberal health pros and college students whom they welcome if required, the allocations are as follows:
doctors, dentists, healthcare biologists, nurses, specialists in charge of nasopharyngeal swabs from Covid-19 assessments: 24 masks per week pharmacists, midwives, masseurs-physiotherapists, manipulators in healthcare electroradiology, preparers in pharmacy, laboratory specialists in healthcare biology: eighteen masks for each 7 days speech-language pathologists, podiatrist-podiatrists, orthoptists, occupational therapists, psychomotricians, audio-prosthetists, opticians-eyewear, psychologists, dieticians, orthoprosthetists and podo-orthotists: twelve masks for each 7 days family members carers: three masks per week and per person hosted by house support employees by means of Cesu: fifteen masks for each week In addition to the above allocation, physicians will be issued a box of 50 surgical masks per week for individuals for whom they prescribe a screening examination for Sars-CoV-2. jdgoshop indicates that new endowments will get there in pharmacies from Thursday, Could seven in the evening. For months twenty and 21, owing to tensions on materials, the FFP2 masks are reserved as a precedence:
medical specialists functioning on the respiratory tract, dental surgeons and professionals in charge of nasopharyngeal screening exams Covid-19 (for their complete allocation, ie 24 FFP2 per 7 days) to physiotherapists for respiratory physiotherapy (greatest six FFP2 for each week) doctors of other specialties (such as general medicine) and nurses can be geared up with FFP2 masks but will be precedence as before long as supplies let. In addition, Covid-19 patients and get in touch with folks are offered with fourteen masks per 7 days. Folks at extremely high health-related danger of developing a extreme type of Covid-19, specially people with significant immune depression, are given 10 masks for every 7 days.
The method of shipping to experts, by means of pharmacies, has changed little.
Pharmacists are invited to total the tables and applications for handling the dispensing of masks. The shipping to ill folks, make contact with or at really large health-related danger is accomplished on healthcare prescription or on authorization of the health insurance policies.
It is up to the attending physician or the clinic doctor to ensure the prescription of surgical masks for people at very high health-related threat, "with discernment, having into account the fact that, for other medical vulnerabilities, and aside from situations distinct to their evaluation, security need to be offered by a standard general public mask. "