Health department announced changes for Saturday's flu clinic

Jackson County Health Department critiqued Thursday night’s H1N1 flu clinic and has made changes for future clinics — including the one scheduled for today.

The target group for today’s clinic is children age 6 months to 4 years and their immediate family members as well as pregnant women and their immediate family members and family members who have children younger than 6 months of age. The department is at 801 W. Second St., Seymour.

Environmentalist Paul Ramsey said Friday the procedure for today’s clinic will be that the first 400 people are guaranteed a vaccination. The first 400 people will receive a vaccination form. However, those forms will not be distributed until 9 a.m.

The clinic is scheduled until 1 p.m. or until the 400 shots are given.

Ramsey also said those attending the clinic should look for signs for parking and follow directions of the parking attendants so that parking does not interfere with parking at neighboring businesses.

The health department has also increased staff for today’s clinic to try to get people through the line quicker.

The procedures for today’s clinic will be critiqued for that information to be used at future clinics.

Thursday night’s H1N1 flu clinic for people ages 4 to 24 years old and their immediate families gathered a crowd outside the health department starting at 2:30 p.m. Two hundred numbers were given out to the waiting crowd, and then another 100 were given later in the evening.

Before the doors to the clinic opened at 5 p.m. the line of people stretched along the side of the health department and past the Jackson-Jennings Co-Op building, which neighbor’s the department’s offices.