Community Vaccination Centre (CVC) and Outreach Vaccination Programme

Teachers and nursing students from the School of Nursing were called in to assist at the Community Vaccination Centres at Kowloon Bay Sports Centre and Osman Ramju Sadick Memorial Sports Centre from mid-March. This was important work because vaccination is the most effective measure for reducing hospitalizations and serious complications after infection, particularly among children and older people whose immune systems may not be so strong, and relieving the burden on medical services.

School staff and students were involved in preparing and giving vaccinations to the public, as well as explaining the vaccination process to the public, providing vaccination information, observing whether vaccine recipients experienced any adverse reactions after injections, and providing crowd management.

They also joined the vaccination outreach team to help vaccinate school children. If children panic or cry because of the injection, parents may worry. Therefore, it was important that nurses were communicative and caring in calming children's emotions and explaining post-vaccination care to parents.