Pharmacy Guild of Australia President Trent Twomey says the rollout should be “decentralised” with the help of community pharmacies since it doesn’t make sense to have crowds flocking to vaccine hubs in the middle of a pandemic.
“I received a phone call this morning from one of my past presidents of the Pharmacy Guild in Victoria and he was driving to his pharmacy and he drove past the Exhibition Centre and said this is ridiculous,” he said.
“There is a line around the street for people lined up for a mass vaccination hub.
“You don’t have to be an epidemiologist to realise that creating big hubs of people where everyone is clustering in a pandemic of a highly infectious and contagious disease is just going to created further issues.
“We need a decentralised approach where we’re utilising the 6,000 general practices, the 5,000 pharmacies that have put their hands up and said let us do it”.