Cape York Weekly Edition 055

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Cape York Weekly FREE – #055 | Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Editor: Matt Nicholls 0477 450 558 | editor@capeyorkweekly.com.au

CAPE ICON HONOURED

Lakeland’s new sporting facility was officially opened on Saturday, with naming rights honouring the legacy of Alan Wilson, the retired Cook Shire councillor. Pictured with Mr Wilson (third from left) are mayor Peter Scott, Lakeland Progress Association president Gary McClelland and Member for Leichhardt Warren Entsch.

Help needed to lift Cape vaccination rates

Fighting on our own By MATT NICHOLLS

DEATHS and high hospitalisation rates from COVID-19 will be the harsh reality for Cape residents if the state and federal governments do not act immediately to improve vaccination rates. The numbers in some communities are frighteningly low. Yet the state and federal leaders have been absent.

Local councils have been forced to do the heavy lifting in trying to convince residents to roll up their sleeve and get immunised. The Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service has tried its best to service the vast region in a timely manner, however they are working in a flawed system. Some communities – Coen, for example – have only been able to access the vaccine on a hand-

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ful of days this year. If you live in Cairns, or even Mareeba, you can make an appointment on any day of the week and get your jab. That is simply not the case in Cape York. Mapoon mayor Aileen Addo said more needed to be done to get people to protect themselves. “We as a council have done all we can to encourage people to get the needle,” she said.

“People are worried if it makes them sick and about their fertility. “They are frightened. “There were community meetings with health people, but they don’t work, people are ashamed to ask questions. “They need to come here and go house to house and sit down and answer questions.” It is unknown why community health clinics, such as Apunipima

Cape York Health Council, have not helped with the rollout. Hope Vale’s Gerhardt Pearson said the system was not working. “Queensland Health had these teams fly in to deliver the jabs, but the people in the communities have these clinics and doctors who they rely on and trust; they should have been the ones talking to people and giving the jabs,” he said. Continued – Page 2

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