A disability service provider in Albury is hoping to vaccinate 600 people when it hosts a pop up Pfizer vaccination clinic next week.
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People with a disability, or people living with or caring for a person with a disability aged 16 years and above, are eligible to receive the vaccination at LiveBetter on Townsend Street.
LiveBetter acting chief executive Helen Miller said the organisation was still taking bookings.
"We've got 58 bookings to date, but we're still accepting them and we've got 600 available," she said.
"Under this program we're looking at the 1A and the 1B groups, but we're also including family members and we're also broadening that out to include all of our care workers.
"Not only is it important to protect the vulnerable people, but it's also important to protect those that sit around them."
Ms Miller said LiveBetter had been frustrated with "delayed" vaccination roll out to priority groups.
"We saw that providers like us in the metropolitan areas were doing these pop up clinics, so that's when we thought that we'd get on the front foot," she said.
"We thought we'd be part of the solution, not the problem."
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Ms Miller said if LiveBetter was unable to fill 600 bookings then the organisation would reach out to other priority contacts and would even accept walk ins.
"We really monitor how many vaccines we're using and we reach out if we feel we've got extra, because we don't want to waste any," she said.
Ms Miller said 3079 vaccines had already been administered to vulnerable community members across the Central West, Riverina, Murray and also in some parts of rural Queensland.
"That's a statistic I'm very proud of," she said.
"[It's] phenomenal, it's been overwhelming.
"We identified there was a gap and we wanted to step in and support our communities, particularly our vulnerable groups."
LiveBetter Quality and Compliance Business Partner Sean McIntosh said there were hundreds of people in Albury-Wodonga with disabilities.
He said though vaccine accessibility had improved over the last four to six weeks, but there were still barriers.
"Being in a regional and rural setting does create more challenges than being in a metro setting," he said.
"I think [the clinic] is great for Albury and Wodonga," he said.
"In this area we've obviously had a tough 18 months, especially with the changing of border closures.
"So hopefully it's one way to see that removed in the future."
The pop up will return in three weeks to administer second doses.
If you would like to make a booking call: 1800 580 580.
Clinic details are:
Monday - 12pm to 4:45pm
Tuesday - 9am to 4:45pm
Wednesday - 9am to 4:45pm
Thursday - 9am to 4:45pm
Friday - 9am to 3pm
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