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Residents upset over clinic schedules  
BY GAZETTE STAFF
The Southern Gazette
Burin Peninsula residents north of Marystown are upset over the scheduling of H1N1 immunization clinics by Eastern Health.
About 15 parents protested at Fortune Bay Academy in St. Bernard’s-Jacques Fontaine Thursday morning. They gathered on the school parking lot and marched to the local health clinic office.
They are demanding the mass immunization clinic scheduled for Christ the King School in Rushoon to begin earlier than the mid-November date announced by Eastern Health.
Some parents removed their children from school and are threatening to arrive at Marystown Central High Monday to have their children receive flu shots.
Terrenceville residents are upset they must travel some 45 minutes to the Rushoon school site for their flu shots. They point out that region of the peninsula is home to some 2,000 residents.
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Joseph from USA writes: OMG! Do the residents of NL ever stop whinning? Always bitching about something. If my child needed medical treatment for something, I would be in the car ready to go. This sense of entitlement gets even worse. You do realize the geography that needs to be covered by a limited number of health care providers is immense. As a former NLer, and being a health care provider, I ask how can you expect to have the availability of the Health Sciences Centre in every outport in NL. I sure as hell bet you don't want your taxes going higher to pay for it! Get in your car and go there, or car pool to sav money and go there. Here's a thought - stop moping and whinning about the less-than-meet-you-at-your-front-door service get out of the boonies and move to a huge metropolis like Marystown so the provincial government can better allocate services, cut down on expenses, and stop paving the roads with gold to every little shack dotted along the coast of our great province.
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