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Volunteers needed for H1N1 vaccination clinic in W-B
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By Erin Moody (Staff Writer)
WILKES-BARRE - Wilkes-Barre Department of Health needs about 100 people to help man the mass H1N1 immunization clinic it is preparing for, and more than three dozen volunteers attended an informational seminar for volunteers Monday night at King's College.
When the mass clinic will be held remains unknown, but Wilkes-Barre City Health Director Ted Kross said he hoped to hold it by the end of November. He will not do the mass clinic unless the city has more than 4,000 vaccines to give out.
"We don't have an exact date yet for our clinic because we are at the mercy of the vaccines," he said.
The city has requested 10,000 vaccines from the state and as of Monday had received 2,700. Of those, 2,100 have been administered in public health clinics in Wilkes-Barre.
Monday's session included comments from Mayor Tom Leighton, an overview of H1N1 and an informational and educational period. The city is looking for not only people with medical backgrounds, such as nurses, who can administer the vaccine, but also other volunteers to take registrations, do paperwork and help out in other ways.
The city's health department has about 30 employees, Kross said, so he would like to see about 70 volunteers, An estimated 40 to 50 of those can have no medical background. (Continued ...)
http://citizensvoice.com/news/volunteer ... nic_in_w-b
By Erin Moody (Staff Writer)
WILKES-BARRE - Wilkes-Barre Department of Health needs about 100 people to help man the mass H1N1 immunization clinic it is preparing for, and more than three dozen volunteers attended an informational seminar for volunteers Monday night at King's College.
When the mass clinic will be held remains unknown, but Wilkes-Barre City Health Director Ted Kross said he hoped to hold it by the end of November. He will not do the mass clinic unless the city has more than 4,000 vaccines to give out.
"We don't have an exact date yet for our clinic because we are at the mercy of the vaccines," he said.
The city has requested 10,000 vaccines from the state and as of Monday had received 2,700. Of those, 2,100 have been administered in public health clinics in Wilkes-Barre.
Monday's session included comments from Mayor Tom Leighton, an overview of H1N1 and an informational and educational period. The city is looking for not only people with medical backgrounds, such as nurses, who can administer the vaccine, but also other volunteers to take registrations, do paperwork and help out in other ways.
The city's health department has about 30 employees, Kross said, so he would like to see about 70 volunteers, An estimated 40 to 50 of those can have no medical background. (Continued ...)