VACCINATION. > The Nouvelle-Beauce Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCINB) has decided to actively join forces with the Federation of Quebec Chambers of Commerce to encourage its members to get involved in in-company vaccination clinics.
“It is our role in the Chamber to serve as a conduit between businesses and the Ministry of Health to ensure the success of such an approach,” says Nancy Labbé, Executive Director of the CCINB.
In Zoom session, late last Thursday afternoon, the director general of the Quebec Chamber of Commerce, Charles Milliard, indicated that more than 650 companies had expressed interest by signing the form put in place on the Internet. “This does not mean of course that they will all host vaccination clinics, it is the Ministry of Health that will make the final choices. But it shows the involvement shown by business people to help get out of the pandemic as quickly as possible, ”he adds.
“We all have to gain from this action and I invite business people to sign the form on the website of the Federation of Quebec Chambers of Commerce. This will help the government to group companies together to create vaccination sites, ”says Ms. Labbé.
For example, adds Mr. Milliard, a large company in one area could be chosen and, with the help of others around, would serve all the employees and their families in an entire industrial park.
Radio silence in Beauce-Sartigan
While the CCINB has taken the lead in Nouvelle-Beauce to boost the involvement of businesses in vaccination clinics, no such action seems to emerge in the Saint-Georges sector.
At the Saint-Georges Chamber of Commerce, its general manager Annie Pelletier indicates that she has not heard of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce initiative.
Same story with the Beauce Economic Council. According to Hélène Pelletier, Director General, the CEB has not received a request to this effect.
In June
During a webinar presented on February 25 by the firm Norton Rose Fulbright, the director of the vaccination campaign, Daniel Paré, wanted clinics to be able to see the days in companies next June, perhaps even in May. if the vaccination is going well.
For such clinics to set up, it will still be necessary to respect certain conditions. “They will have to be in operation for at least two months, to give the two doses of vaccine. It will also be necessary to ensure that it is in an area where there are enough people to be vaccinated and, even more important that there are enough vaccines, ”says Mr. Paré.
In addition, it will be necessary to provide a sufficiently large room, a dozen vaccinators and about fifty support people. “This is why the solution will undoubtedly come from the grouping of companies within a single clinic,” he explains.
The goal is to create clinics that could vaccinate a thousand people per day.
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