All eligible care residence residents in Lanarkshire have now obtained the most recent dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The primary well being board in Scotland to vaccinate care residence residents towards COVID-19, NHS Lanarkshire has now vaccinated greater than 3000 residents with each the booster and flu vaccines.
South Lanarkshire Well being and Social Care Partnership nurse mentioned that the vaccines will play an necessary position in offering an extra layer of safety for care residence residents.
"Care residence residents are amongst our most weak residents and I do know it is going to be drastically reassuring to residents, their family members and employees that they've now obtained each vaccines," nurse director Lesley Thomson instructed Lanarkshire Reside.
"From the very outset of the pandemic, well being and social care employees have labored carefully with care residence employees to maintain residents as secure as attainable and that is one other important milestone on this journey.
"The care residence vaccination programme has been carried out as shortly as attainable.
"Every step of the programme has additional highlighted simply how devoted and versatile our employees and care employees are in defending residents.”
A small variety of residents weren't eligible to obtain the vaccines on the deliberate time for quite a few causes equivalent to being unwell on the day of vaccination or being new residents.
Additional visits to care properties are going down to make sure all residents are absolutely vaccinated as they turn into eligible.
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