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Get Your Flu Shot and Protect Children from Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

Darpan News Desk, 31 Oct, 2016 11:50 AM
  • Get Your Flu Shot and Protect Children from Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Customers who receive their 2016/2017 influenza vaccination at London Drugs will now play an active role in helping to protect tens of thousands of the world’s most vulnerable children from vaccine-preventable diseases. Through a new partnership with I Boost Immunity (IBI), a Canadian-based online immunization advocacy network, for every flu shot administered at London Drugs this year, a lifesaving vaccine will be donated to UNICEF Canada to immunize children in a developing country.
 
“By getting the flu shot you already help protect the most vulnerable people in your own community from potentially life-threatening illness including the very young, the elderly and the immunocompromised,” says John Tse, vice president, pharmacy at London Drugs. “This partnership with IBI in support of UNICEF Canada allows our customers to make a global impact, providing life-saving vaccinations to children worldwide while taking care of their own health needs.”
 
According to UNICEF, 19.4 million children missed out on basic vaccines needed to stay healthy last year. Almost one third of deaths among children under five are preventable by vaccines.
 
Tse says that the potential to save a child’s life with the simple act of getting the flu shot is added motivation to get vaccinated. “Our customers have the opportunity to be global change makers simply by protecting themselves and their families against the flu this year,” he says. 
 
For each flu vaccination administered at any of London Drugs 78 pharmacy locations, I Boost Immunity will provide a tetanus, polio or measles vaccine to UNICEF Canada to vaccinate marginalized children at risk of deadly illnesses.
 
“Partnering with London Drugs is one of the many ways we hope to increase awareness about the importance of getting vaccinated and to improve immunization rates both here in Canada and across the globe,” says Michael Barnes, Executive Director of the Public Health Association of BC. “Diseases cross local and national boundaries. That means that vaccinating anyone, anywhere in the world, benefits all of us.”
 
I Boost Immunity is managed by the Public Health Association of BC and partnered with ImmunizeBC – a collaboration of the BC Centre for Disease Control, BC Pharmacy Association and regional health authorities –which aims to promote immunization as the best protection against vaccine-preventable diseases.
 
To learn more about getting the flu shot at London Drugs or about booking an appointment, visit: http://www.londondrugs.com/flu.

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