Mayor anticipates community update on COVID vaccine themes by Northern Health within a few weeks

Councillor Gurvinder Randhawa is looking for some guidance
from Northern Health as to when COVID-19 vaccines will
be made available for health care workers and seniors in Prince Rupert

The topic of COVID and the prospect of a vaccine rollout program in the region made for some short commentary at Monday evening's  Prince Rupert City Council session.

As part of the Council members portion of the night, Councillor Gurvinder Randhawa relayed some questions and concerns that he had received from the community when it comes to Northern Health's COVID-19 response. 

Many of them related to recent news on the ongoing efforts towards COVID, including the recent transfer of patients from Mills Memorial Hospital in Terrace to Prince Rupert Regional Hospital.

Of particular concern for the councillor was the timeline for the roll out of vaccine shots both for the health care professionals in the community, seniors  and the general public. 

Mr. Randhawa also relayed for Council that other communities had already begun a vaccination program and  some residents of the city had expressed some worry about the delays that the current situation is making for in Prince Rupert.

While Mayor Lee Brain could offer little in the way of an update on the topics raised, he did observe that he had recently spoken with officials at Northern Health, who indicated that they will be providing some form of a community update in the weeks to come.

"I had a conversation with Northern Health this week they're going to be putting out an update I believe either next week, or the week after that.  But that's completely in their jurisdiction and they advise that once they know what's going to happen that the community will all know at once ...  That's going to be up to Northern Health on how that schedule plays out, so they advise me that they will have an update to the community once they have the information, so that's as far as I can answer the question at the moment" -- Prince Rupert Mayor Lee Brain 

You can review the Councillors questions and the Mayors replies from the Video archive at the one hour three minute mark.

For more notes on Monday's Council Session see our Council Timeline Feature.

A wider overview of past Council Discussion themes can be explored here.

Further notes on Northern Health can be found from two of our archives:

Overall Northern Health Northwest Notes

Prince Rupert Region Health Northern Health Notes