Roscommon COVID-19 vaccination programme now up and running at the Abbey Hotel

The COVID 19 vaccination programme across County Roscommon has now moved to the newly established Vaccination Centre located in the Abbey Hotel, Roscommon. On 06 January a programme of vaccination of frontline healthcare workers commenced at Roscommon University Hospital, with the vaccine offered to healthcare workers across the hospital, community and other healthcare workers in the county. During January and February, vaccination teams comprising of staff from both Roscommon University Hospital and Community Healthcare West completed a programme of vaccinations across all Residential Care Facilities in Counties Roscommon and Mayo.

Paul Hooton, Chief Director of Nursing and Midwifery at the Saolta Group which has overall responsibility for the vaccination programme across the west and north west said, “At this point, we are confident that almost all healthcare workers in hospitals have received the vaccination (first dose) and many have now received their second dose. There are many thousands of frontline healthcare workers working outside of hospitals and over the last number of weeks we have been steadily nearing completion for this group, which includes workers from the public and private health services, those employed by the HSE and those employed by funded agencies.  We have also commenced the vaccination programme for the next group identified, these are people age 16-69 who are at very high risk due to their medical condition.”