REDCLIFF, AB – A shortage of vaccines is already been experienced in the Medicine Hat area.
Pharmasave in Redcliff is part of the province’s vaccination program.
But they don’t have any vaccine to administer and are not sure when they will get more.
They were originally promised 300 doses per week, then it was decreased to 100, and now zero.
Pharmacist Rob Hozack says their phone has been ringing off the hook from people wanting to get immunized.
And that demand is expected to increase as phase 2B rolls out on Tuesday.
Hozack feels the pharmacy rollout has been incredibly unorganized.
He says many of their patients were getting text notifications to book phase 2B with the pharmacy phone number on it ahead of the rollout.
“However, at the same time, we got a notification from Alberta health to not book any phase 2 people until you’ve gone through the phase 2A waitlist. Along with a notification that vaccine is delayed again and I won’t have any for several weeks. It seems unnecessary, one to push that notification out when I don’t have vaccine, and two, to move to phase 2B before there’s vaccine to do that.”
He says he will be calling Cypress-Medicine Hat MLA Drew Barnes to express his frustration about how the pharmacy rollout has been going.
