Arundel and South Downs MP, Andrew Griffith, visited three vaccination centres on Wednesday 11thAugust to personally thank volunteers and staff who are part of the local rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine.
As the Minister for Covid Vaccine Deployment, Nadhim Zahawi MP, announced that three quarters of all adults have received both doses of their Coronavirus vaccine, the three local centres combined had delivered a stunning total of 89,000 doses – with The Glebe Surgery, Storrington having administered 34,000 does, Pulborough Medical Group a total of 25,000 doses and Angmering Vaccination Clinic a total of over 30,000 doses. This excludes Henfield Medical Centre whom Andrew will thank on a future occasion and the many clinics who have vaccinated local residents but which fall into different parliamentary constituencies.
During his visits, Andrew met with GP’s, vaccinators, community volunteers and clinical leaders to discuss the challenges of such a large scale and long running programme. He also saw some of the first of the 16-17 cohort arriving to be vaccinated after the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recently advised that all 16 and 17 year olds should receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The NHS has confirmed that they will contact those eligible directly but all vaccine centres encouraged young people to come forward as soon as possible.
Andrew Griffith MP said:
“It was a privilege to meet with vaccination heroes today. They have worked long hours and overcome unique challenges over many months now to achieve such a high level of vaccination across West Sussex. To meet the teams who’ve delivered getting on for 100,000 doses really is remarkable.
All of the health professionals I met emphasised how important it is that anyone who has not yet had the vaccine including those aged 16 and 17 does so. It’s still a nasty virus which is hospitalising many.”
