Gold Coast offers drive-through Pfizer vaccinations at Pimpama, with pop-up clinics at Pacific Pines and Ormeau high schools
Pop-up Pfizer clinics are being set up on the northern Gold Coast in a bid to drive up the city’s vaccination rate. FIND THE LOCATIONS.
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POP-UP Covid-19 vaccination clinics are being set up across the northern Gold Coast on October 9 and 10 as part of Queensland Health’s extended ‘Super Pfizer Weekend’.
They will be located at:
* Ormeau Woods State High School – Pfizer only, 148 Goldmine Road, October 9-10 from 9am-2pm
* Pacific Pines State High School – Pfizer only, 15 Archipelago Street, October 9-10, from 9am-2pm
The clinics will be accepting all persons aged 12 and over as a walk-in during operating hours. Residents must present at least one hour before clinic closing and is limited by supply availability.
Minister for Health and Ambulance Services Yvette D’Ath said: “We’re targeting areas with low uptake with these school pop-up clinics”.
“This will initially be a trial to see how popular school-based clinics are, and we hope to expand to more areas in coming weeks.
“If you are heading out this weekend with your family and there’s a pop-up vaccination clinic near you, then make it a family outing to get vaccinated.
“All family members aged 12 years and over can get vaccinated and be protected all at the same time.
“The sooner Queenslanders get vaccinated, the sooner we can begin navigating a pathway out of the pandemic.”
Education Minister Grace Grace said she hoped many of Queensland’s students aged 12 and over, and their families, will come forward and get vaccinated this weekend.”
FIRST LOOK: Drive-through vaccine hub opens on Coast
October 5
IN what’s believed to be a Queensland first, the Gold Coast is now home to a drive-through pop-up Pfizer vaccination clinic, with Amtan Medical operating the Pimpama facility.
With capacity to accommodate up to 500 bookings a day by appointment only, the Pfizer Vaccination Drive Through centre is currently open three days a week but expects to expand to six days within a few weeks once vaccine supply is boosted.
Located in a house with an empty block nearby, the pop-up clinic is just off the M1 at Pimpama at 35 Creek Street, near the former Strawberry Farm site.
Amtan Medical has eight practices centres across the northern Gold Coast and co-owner Dr Tanya Unni said she was committed to offering residents an easy way to get vaccinated.
“We’re doing this to make it super easy for people to get vaccinated, especially those with children and families,” she said.
“It means not having to find or pay for parking or having to wait alongside others in a big queue, people can just drive up and be in the comfort of their own car during the entire process.
“Being able to offer this service to not just our patients but anyone from across the Gold Coast, Brisbane or those travelling through is part of our commitment to ensuring the community gets vaccinated as soon as possible.
“Please, get vaccinated as soon as you can.”
Getting their jab at the Gold Coast on Tuesday were two NRL footy players from the Parramatta Eels, Isaiah Papali’i, 23 and Hayze Perham, 22.
The former Warriors players said they were getting vaccinated to help protect vulnerable members of the community.
With about 12 staff onsite at the pop-up clinic, patients drive up to an area and are checked in and given paperwork to fill in. They then drive around the side of a house where they come to an area where a staff member administers the vaccine.
Patients must then drive into a grassed area and wait in their car for 15 minutes, with a staff member checking on them from outside. A yellow sign advising of them of possible side effects and what time they are able to leave is put on their windscreen.
If in distress, the recently vaccinated patients are told to “honk your horn for immediate medical attention”. Appointments are essential and can be made at amtanmedical.com.au or by calling 1300 428 826.
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