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It’s dial a jab time DHB unveils new Covid strategy By Mary Anne Gill
Health vaccinators will go anywhere in Waipā to protect the community from Covid-19 in a strategy unveiled by Waikato District Health Board (DHB) this week. The DHB will mobilise teams to do vaccinations at events where there are sufficient numbers – if they are asked. And it’s Māori, aged 12-39, the DHB has in its sights as the percentage of the eligible population who have had their first and second Covid doses lags way behind nonMāori.
“Wherever you see a flag, just walk on in…” Maree Munro. The DHB says it will go to marae, sporting and whānau events on request so everyone can get protected by Christmas. It is the largest vaccination campaign of its type in Waipā and saw the DHB and Raukura Hauora o Tainui hitting the road this week. “We’re looking at how we get out into the community. We’re very open to meeting their needs, doing things that work for them. These are busy people so it’s about taking the vaccination service out to them,” said the DHB’s Covid-19 vaccine programme lead Maree Munro. No appointment was needed at community events as Munro revealed an opportunistic angle to getting vaccinated at other vaccination places too. “Wherever you see a flag, just walk on in and see if you can get your vaccination done then and there.” Nearly 75 per cent of Waipā’s eligible population had received their first dose at
Who you going to call? Unichem Family Health Pharmacy vax busters, from left, Jordan Hinton, Robyn Bridgland, Fiona Hutchinson, Charmaine Meiklejohn, Astrid Pfeffer, Eileen Rimene, Anita Venter, Peta Burr. Photo: Mary Anne Gill. the start of the week but among the eligible Māori population of 6822 people, it was only 44.4 per cent. “We’re hitting the hard-to-reach which is the 12-39 age group. That’s the numbers we’ve really got to target,” said Munro. Two of the Covid-19 vaccinators at
Unichem Family Health Pharmacy in Cambridge say the primary reason for putting their names forward to help was so they could help protect their community. Robyn Bridgland and Eileen Rimene, who both live in Cambridge, are vaccinator nurses between their regular jobs.
Robyn is an occupational nurse and Eileen a practice nurse. Unichem Family Health Pharmacy last week gave their 10,000th vaccination since its first on June 30. Pharmacist Jordan Hinton has also been
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