Westminster âfailing those who need their help mostâ over shortage of centres
01 February, 2021 â By Isabelle Stanley
Soho resident Alida Baxter believes that the vaccine is âvitalâ but doesnât know how she will be able to get it
A SHORTAGE of vaccination centres has left vulnerable residents facing a difficult decision over whether to travel long distances for the jabs.
Alida Baxter, 78, who has lived in Soho for most of her life, was told by her GP she would have to travel nearly three miles from her home to the vaccination point at Lordâs Cricket Ground.
âI was astonished that vulnerable elderly people have to somehow get all that way,â she said.
28 January, 2021
Lordâs Cricket Ground, one of the centres in Westminster offering Covid-19 vaccinations
⢠TO my mind there have been some really good letters over the years from Alida Baxter to the
Extra and, generally, I have had no disagreement with any, but her latest does prompt such,
I was also sent to Lordâs Cricket Ground for an anti-Covid jab and canât praise the whole process enough. Roughly 15 to 20 minutes in the queue and 15 minutes more in the room where the inoculations happened, and away home. All done quickly and efficiently.
Mind you we must surely just love the way politicians, up on their hinders on boxes, claim credit for the what has been done by those actually providing the service.