Kelowna News

Friday is the last day for H1N1 flu clinics within the Interior Health region.

Two clinics are being held Friday, at Prospera Place in Kelowna from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. and in Vernon at the Vernon Health Centre from 3 p.m. until 7 p.m.

Health officials are terminating the clinics province-wide due to a lessening in the demand for the vaccine.

Interior Health public health communications officer, Lannea Parfitt, says H1N1 vaccinations will still be available through health units, family physicians, walk-in-clinics and through some pharmacies.

To date, Parfitt says about 36 per cent of people within the Interior Health region have taken advantage of the H1N1 vaccination.

That works out to nearly 300,000 doses.

“Getting the H1N1 vaccine into as many arms as possible has been the dominating priority of Public Health for the last couple of months”, says IH Senior Medical Health Officer, Dr. Andrew Larder.

“There have also been many people outside of Public Health that have pitched in to help out with this initiative. I’d like to thank each and every one of those people for their assistance during this campaign.”

Meantime, for those who have not been vaccinated, Parfitt says there is no fear of Interior Health running out of the H1N1 vaccine.

She says they have enough to accommodate anyone who wants to get vaccinated.