Vaccination by torchlight

As the GEC was plunged into darkness by the power cut last Saturday the Galtres Vaccination Team kept calm and carried on by torchlight.

Lead Nurse, Marianne Doyle, tells how it unfolded.

‘I wanted to share with you the fantastic resilience shown by the South Hambleton Galtres Centre Vaccination team this weekend.

The Centre was vaccinating just shy of 1,200 patients over Friday and Saturday.

On Friday night, Storm Arwen caused havoc in our rual community but thankfully we had a full compliment of staff by 8.30am Saturday the biggest of the two days with 700 appointments booked.

Just after 10am a power cut affected most of the local the area including The Galtres Centre. We were left in a windowless sports hall, in the pitch black with no computers and no vaccine fridge………