World Immunization Week is this week and it’s perfect timing for Cobourg Rotary to also talk about the vaccination clinics.
From a global scale to a local, Rotary is a dynamic proponent of vaccinations and a driving force. Since 1988, it has been Rotary’s global mission to wipe out polio, and it has been successful in reducing polio cases by 99.9%, saving over 19 million children from this terrible disease through a massive international vaccination campaign.
Showing the same commitment to health locally, the Rotary Club of Cobourg has been leading the vaccination charge for Northumberland, developing the clinic at the CCC with the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit.
That was Gord Ley, a 30-year member of the Rotary Club of Cobourg and recently took on Northumberland’s COVID-19 Immunization Project at the Cobourg Community Centre (CCC).
In short order, the entire clinic setup was designed and built, and volunteers enlisted and in just four weeks, some 11,000 vaccinations have taken place, with the help of now over 600 volunteers. But that’s not all…
Ley says the province was so impressed with the set up at the CCC, they have used Northumberland as a model.
Rotary has also taken on the role of ambassadors.
Ley ends by saying vaccines work and are the best investments we can make in human health and that World Immunization Week is a celebration of this; adding that if we can overcome Polio on a worldwide basis, we can do the same about COVID-19.
(VERY LEFT IN PICTURE: GORD LEY, ROTARY CLUB OF COBOURG:)
(THIS PIC WAS SUBMITTED BY NHH: group pic including Gord Ley (in orange, centre) as well as representatives from just a few of the MANY partners involved in making this happen, both from the Ontario Health Team of Northumberland and beyond)
