Ontario Community Newspapers

Canadian Champion (Milton, ON), 4 Nov 2009, p. 3

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HI NI vaccine may flot be available next wek: Nosal *from NO on page Al Health staff administered 1,415 injections in Milton Monday, and 5,921 ai ail four sites in Halton. Greeters at the clinic have been handing out papers to people advising them the clinic is only for priority groups. They include people under age 65 with chronic medical conditions, preg- nant women, healthy chul- dren from six months to under five years of age, some health-care workers, people living in remote and isolated settings, and caregivers and household contacts of peo- pie in a high priority group who can't be immunized such as infants under six months of age or those who may flot respond to vaccines. Halton Region spokesper- son Carleen Carroll attrib- uted the shorter wait imes in Milton to what she described as a great location. "It's got a lot of parking, its got good space, we've got the staffing resources that we need." The Milton clinic is GRAHAM PAINE CANADIAN CHAMPION Residents uine up for the Hl N1 vaccine at New Life Church. scheduled to run daily from noon to 8 p.m. until Friday but residents can check wwwhalton.ca or cati 311 for updated infonmation. This is the second week Halton has been running HI NI clinics. Last week, the Region had a clinic in both Oakville and Acion lutiti expanded the number to four starting Monday. Prior to yesterday's cli- ics, the Region had given out 24,125 doses of HiNI vac- cine. As well, doctors, hospi- tais and long-term care cen- tres in Halton have received 19,875 doses. Halton Regions health department is hopeful it will have enough doses of the vaccine to continue this week's clinics. However, Halton Medical Officer of Healîh Dr. Bob Nosal said he doesn' t know if it will have vaccine for cli- ics ncxt wcck. Residents can cati their local dociors 10 see if the>' are offering the vaccination. For more information on ibis story, visit www.milton- canadianchampion.com. Tim Foran can be reached at tforan@ýn-itoncanadian- cliampion.com. Se: AURA, OER, 200 NEW 25- Wtoo O O BusO. * *wy o *-401, andOhe Squae.OneO BsTriasee asawe . 0 6:8 .i .0kig l sos toWaeroo. hs0tris o 0nctt he4: 0 d52 .mO NE 2 MftwOak0ille O Bus G OUTOF OURCA fAD- TON H O. ------- O ; i - u: .,.,-p-,G t . -- - SIN PFO -ES NDREEI . USOMIE O RT ON THE , 416 869 3200 1 888 GET ON GO (438 6646) TTY 1 800 387 3652 là A & Pour plus de renseignements, veuillez visiter le site gotrensit.com ou l a qw composer un des numéros ci-dessus.1 METRO.L.INX

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