Two Hills Pharmacy Administering Covid-19 Vaccine

Two Hills Pharmacy Administering Covid-19 Vaccine

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The Two Hills Pharmacy is one of the sites Alberta Health has selected to administer the Covid-19 vaccine. Pharmacy Manager Jignesh Patel said they began administering the Modern Covid-19 vaccine on March 12. Seniors over the age of 65, First Nations, Metis and Inuit people aged 50 or older, and staff and residents of long-term care facilities and licensed supportive living (seniors) residences that missed or were not included in Phase 1 of the roll out are eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. Patel said because Two Hills County has a large demographic of seniors that was the reason why it was selected as one of the pharmacies to participate in this phase of the vaccine roll out. They received 400 doses of the vaccine and can accommodate 50 bookings per day. On March 5 the pharmacy began accepting bookings and had more than 150 people on the waiting list within days. Patel said there are around 250 doses currently available and people can phone or email the pharmacy to register to receive the vaccine. Patel is happy to be able to offer this service and said everyone is excited to get the vaccine. He feels it will make people, especially seniors, feel much safer to go out in the community. He added that once all of the doses have been administered, the pharmacy will be eligible to receive another shipment of the vaccine.

Two Hills Pharmacy Manager Jignesh Patel administers the Covid-19 vaccine to local resident Pat Dehid on March 15.