(NOTICIAS YA) .- This pilot program is part of an initiative of Mascon Medical in collaboration with professional firefighters and the Brewster ambulance agency. John Chin, the Executive Director of the Medical Center told us about the motivation behind the program.
“It is very important for us to reach out to underserved communities of color who are having difficulty traveling to a mass vaccination site or even booking an appointment.”
“They should mobilize more, the more they mobilize and the more we are doing this, the faster we are going to get out of this.” This was stated by Zoila Ralph, a Quincy resident minutes before receiving her Convid-19 vaccination at the senior residential complex where one of the two mobile vaccination clinics was held on Friday, which also visited Chelsea in the morning hours.
“The vaccine didn’t hurt, I didn’t even feel it when they gave it to me. When I looked, the person who had already put it on told me. ” Zoila said after being vaccinated.
Just at the Quincy location this pilot beef program to almost 600 people over 75 years of age. Administrators say they want to continue these mobile vaccination brigades in other municipalities but await state approval and more vaccine supplies.
“We can install in a place like this, in a center for the elderly, assisted living or we can install in any place that a municipality or the public health department allows us. Once we get their approval. ” Chin said.
In Boston, where 2 mass vaccination centers opened this week, officials do not rule out offering mobile vaccination brigades and say that more centers are already being worked on for the community.
“They are going to be medium in size and we are planning them in well accessible places such as the YMCA, community agencies that have offered us their space, we are looking at opportunities to do it in churches. ” Said Rita Nieves of the Boston Public Health Commission.
For his part, Governor Charlie Baker announced today that from Monday the call center will be enabled to make appointments for those who are eligible to be inoculated. The line will be operational Monday through Friday from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM through the 2-1-1 line.
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