It has cost the health unit responsible for Northumberland County more than 90-thousand dollars to vaccinate only 28 per cent of the population of the area it serves for H1N1..
The Medical officer of Health, Doctor Lynn Noseworthy told the board of health meeting yesterday that’s about 47,000 people in Northumberland and Haliburton Counties, and the city of Kawartha Lakes..
The Health Unit will recoup 10 dollars a shot from provincial funding, but what the final financial position will be, a money maker or loser, won’t be known for a few months.
Everyone except babies under six months was eligible, but 72 per cent of the population didn’t participate in the flu vaccination clinics, which ended this week, or get their shots at doctors’ offices or schools.
