MCA’s Healthy Communities Project received an overwhelming response

By Deepak Bhardwaj

Multicultural Communities of Australia (MCA) in collaboration with Terry White Chemmart Cumberland Park launched a Community Project called “Healthy Communities” during this pandemic Covid -19 crisis on 3 June 2020.
This pandemic crises has created the urgency of health and safety of our community members and as cold and long winters are coming ahead, MCA is providing a free flu vaccination for vulnerable and deserving community members till 30th June 2020. These flu vaccines are administered by a trained pharmacists of Terry White Chemmart Cumberland Park to deserving community members aged 10 years or older.

MCA has so far received an overwhelming response from the community members with almost 500 individuals benefited from this project from last 3 weeks. MCA have also extended Healthy Communities Project to the regional and rural areas of South Australia and Victoria. We have liaison with Aussie Discount Chemist at Quorn which covers the region around Port Augusta and Whyalla. We have also liaison with Risdon Pharmacy at Port Pirie region and also with Keens Pharmacy at Merbein which covers the regional areas around Mildura in Victoria.

MCA encouraged the deserving community members to go to the pharmacy and get vaccinations but we have also arranged many on site flu vaccination clinics for the community members who lives far from the pharmacy and cannot able to travel. We have organised on site clinics with religious institutions like Gurudwara Nanak Darbar at Allenby Gardens, BAPS Swaminarayan temple at Green Fields and with AMISSA at Adelaide Mosque in CBD.

(Deepak Bhardwaj is the CEO of Multicultural Communities of Australia.)