Stawell Regional Health have continued on their charge to vaccinate the community delivering their 5000th dose of a COVID vaccine and running a walk-in clinic.
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Stawell Regional Health's Helen Kennedy presented Brooke Borch with a certificate after she received the 5000th COVID vaccination dose delivered by Stawell Regional Health.
Ms Borch was presented with the certificate after receiving her dose at the Stawell Regional Health vaccination clinic on Wednesday, September 29.
The health service also ran a walk-in clinic on Thursday, September 30 onsite.
Stawell Regional Health manager of oncology, community services and the vaccination clinic Paula Noble said they had 50 bookings already made and had an additional 60 Pzifer doses allocated for the walk-ins.
She said the clinic delivered 40 doses in their 11am-12pm session and completed the day delivering 70 doses from walk-ins in total.
"We have had a great response," she said.
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"We are finding it is the younger demographic. We have had a lot of 12-13 year-olds and young adults come in today."
Everyone who received a walk-in dose was getting their first dose and now has appointment for their second.
Ms Noble said the health service would look at doing similar walk-in sessions in the future.
"One of the reasons we did this is because we didn't have a heap of bookings, but thought we would try it and see how it goes," she said.
"We possibly will do more depending on supply.
"We are doing really well and probably higher than the average of a lot of other state areas.
"People want the vaccine and it is just a matter of getting the supply to match their needs.
"We might look at running a few later (in the day) clinics, but we will look at this one and learn from it.
"We are very unique here in Stawell, we actually run with both state and federal supply and so we get access to both lots of vaccines and we play around with it to make it work best for the community."
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