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September 20, 2021
Waipareira takes vaccinators to the streets
Kura Ratapu
Posted On September 20, 2021
Waipareira takes vaccinators to the streets
Waipareira will be out in numbers tomorrow to encourage whānau who have not yet been
vaccinated to get the jab.
Along with the Vaccination Clinics at the Trusts Arena in Central Park Drive, and Catherine
Street, Henderson, Waipareira will bus nurses and vaccinators into west Auckland
communities to make it simpler for whānau to be vaccinated.
Waipareira CEO John Tamihere said the low Māori uptake to vaccinations required new
approaches.
“Our community is the driver of what needs to happen and going into the community on
busses to vaccinate, is one way to get to our people,” Tamihere said.
“We went to the Ranui Caravan Park for a trial run on Thursday and were very pleased with
the number of whānau who came to be vaccinated.
“Of the 50 odd residents, the majority wanted, and were vaccinated. That was encouraging,
and showed our whānau were not afraid of getting vaccinated but through difficult
circumstances could not get to a Vaccination Centre.“Going to them in their hoods is one way to solve that issue.”
Some residents also asked if they could participate in the trial saliva testing programme,
which Waipareira will roll out across Tamaki Makaurau.
“We took a number of saliva tests from around 25 residents of the caravan park and all
came back negative within a 12 hour turn around, which is also another encouraging sign.”
The Waipareira bus will be mobilised across west Auckland from tomorrow and whānau can
find out where the bus is heading by following live streams via the Waipareira Facebook
Page.
The vaccination campaign will also be supported by an intensive radio and social media
campaign.
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