{"id":3693,"date":"2021-11-29T15:54:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T05:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2021-11-29T15:54:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T05:54:49","slug":"lois-mccreddan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/newsletters\/news-at-the-royal\/lois-mccreddan","title":{"rendered":"Lois McCreddan supports COVID vaccination in rural communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h4><span data-contrast=\"auto\">RBWH\u00a0Emergency\u00a0Response\u00a0Coordinator Lois\u00a0McCreddan\u00a0recently\u00a0assisted with COVID-19 vaccinations in\u00a0far\u00a0west NSW as part of her work with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Australian Medical Assistance Teams (AUSMAT).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The joint deployment between AUSMAT and\u00a0CareFlight\u00a0was predominantly focussed on vaccinating vulnerable populations.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The team travelled to Wentworth and supported the local health service, many of\u00a0whom had been working for weeks in a row to provide for the community.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\"We assisted with two large vaccination clinics in Wentworth and Dareton,\u00a0seeing almost 300\u00a0people\u00a0per day.\u00a0The numbers were not huge compared to large days at\u00a0our\u00a0RBWH vaccination clinic\u00a0however\u00a0the populations of these towns are less than 2,000 people,\u00a0so 300 per day was a lot,\" said Lois.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\"We also travelled to\u00a0a town called Balranald to assist with a drive through vaccination clinic for the wider population and provided a mobile vaccination service for the local indigenous health service\u00a0Maari\u00a0Ma.\u00a0In addition, we travelled to Broken Hill where we spent a week vaccinating the\u00a0vulnerable indigenous community in their homes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\"I had the opportunity to walk the streets in full PPE and vaccinate the locals and share stories. It's an experience that I likely won't ever get to do again and a great way to connect with the locals in their\u00a0front yard.\"<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"awb-gallery-wrapper awb-gallery-wrapper-1 button-span-no\"><div style=\"margin:-2px;--awb-bordersize:0px;\" class=\"fusion-gallery fusion-gallery-container fusion-grid-2 fusion-columns-total-2 fusion-gallery-layout-grid fusion-gallery-1\"><div style=\"padding:2.5px;\" class=\"fusion-grid-column fusion-gallery-column fusion-gallery-column-2 hover-type-none\"><div class=\"fusion-gallery-image\"><a rel=\"noreferrer\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[gallery_image_1]\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-3673\"  \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div style=\"padding:2.5px;\" class=\"fusion-grid-column fusion-gallery-column fusion-gallery-column-2 hover-type-none\"><div class=\"fusion-gallery-image\"><a rel=\"noreferrer\" data-rel=\"iLightbox[gallery_image_1]\" class=\"fusion-lightbox\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" aria-label=\"\" class=\"img-responsive wp-image-3672\"  \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RBWH Emergency Response Coordinator Lois McCreddan recently assisted with COVID-19 vaccinations in far west NSW as part of her work with Australian Medical Assistance Teams (AUSMAT). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":3672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-at-the-royal"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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