“H1N1 vaccine costly for Montreal school children “

H1N1 vaccination clinics in Montreal had been standing empty recently, and yet staff were forced to turn away anyone not in a priority group because of Montreal Health Agency policies. As school boards react to announcements that Quebec health officials plan to have schools bus elementary and secondary school children to mass vaccination sites, healthy children in the 5 to 19 year old age group have been bumped up into the priority group.

Busing to Mass Vaccination Centers a Costly Decision

Quebec’s director of public health protection, Dr. Horacio Arruda, claims there isn’t enough vaccine available and says bringing it to schools would result in the loss of precious doses. “If we distribute them across thousands of thousands of sites we will lose vaccine, so we will have less available vaccine for the people to benefit from it,” he said in a CBC interview.

Although the concern is understandable, there has been no information released yet as to how schools are going to pay for the cost of transporting children. School boards worry….

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Tags: education in Quebec, H1N1 influenza (swine flu), politics, public health policy, public school boards, school buses