Interior Health launches mobile immunization clinics

KAMLOOPS — Two mobile COVID-19 immunization clinics that will travel across the Interior Health region to target rural and remote communities and other hard to reach populations.

One mobile immunization clinic will travel through communities in the Thompson Cariboo Shuswap regions and the North Okanagan, with stops first in Cherryville, Lumby, the Okanagan Indian Band, Falkland and Armstrong. The second clinic will travel trough the South Okanagan, Kootenay Boundary and East Kootenay regions, making initial stops in Big White, Peachland, Okanagan Falls, Hedley and Princeton.

The mobile clinic is scheduled to be in Princeton this Sunday (June 13) from 7:45-4:30 pm. An exact location has not been confirmed.

“We know that the best way to ensure that everyone who wants a vaccine is able to get one is by removing as many barriers to access as possible,” Interior Health President and CEO Susan Brown said. “These two mobile clinics are heading out on a road trip that will make it easier for many people in the Interior to get their COVID-19 vaccine in their home community.”

Two trailers are fully equipped and have been provided by the British Columbia Automobile Association. They will make stops in more than 40 communities along the way.

The mobile clinics will focus on providing first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to eligible people who are 12 and older (born in 2009 or earlier), and appointments at the clinics along the way will not be required.

Interior Health will update communities when the mobile vaccination clinic will be near them.

Anyone can keep up-to-date with the mobile immunization clinics schedules online.