H1N1 clinics coming to Halifax-area schools
Last Updated: Friday, November 27, 2009 | 12:13 PM AT
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The first school-based H1N1 vaccination clinics will open in the Halifax area next week.
The Capital District Health Authority says the two clinics in Lower Sackville and central Halifax are pilot projects.
Students and teachers at Sackville High will be able to get the H1N1 shot during school hours on Monday, while the clinic at Citadel High will open on Tuesday.
Both clinics will be open to the general public after school until 9 p.m.
Doug Hadley, spokesman for the Halifax Regional School Board, said health officials contacted the board earlier this week, before the death of a Bedford man was made public.
Stephen Nolan, 46, died in hospital on Wednesday after spending a few days in the intensive-care unit. He was a healthy man whose flu symptoms progressed quickly, his family said. Nolan's family encouraged people with no risk factors to get immunized against H1N1.
The H1N1 vaccine has been available to all Nova Scotians since last Friday. It had been restricted to only priority groups due to a nation-wide shortage.
Capital Health added extra clinics at the Halifax Forum starting on Saturday.
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