Those who will be travelling to faraway places this summer can get their vaccinations on campus. The Vaccination Centre is located between Campus Plaza and Plus Ultra, next door to the childcare centre.
The clientele consists largely of students and university staff. The centre has had a connection with the campus for a long time. Its founder Marchel Ratering worked as assistant to the then Student Doctor for almost 20 years before setting up the Vaccination Centre first at Duivendaal, later in the Nexus building and since January 2018 at the current location. Anyone can go to the centre, by appointment, to fill their ‘yellow booklet’ with every conceivable vaccination for any travel destination. You can also obtain malaria prophylaxis there, as well as good advice. According to the centre’s nurse Sharona Erol, this advice mainly focuses on ‘hygiene, bugs and sex’, the three main sources of illness when travelling. Hygiene concerns are all about food and drink, bugs include mosquitoes, ticks and parasites, and when it comes to sex, Resource doesn’t need to explain anything, right? Keep it safe, even in this post-Covid summer of love!
Besides vaccinations, the centre gives advice, especially on ‘hygiene, bugs and sex’
Speaking of which, the Covid pandemic has had quite an impact on the world of travel and therefore on the Vaccination Centre’s core business. For a Covid vaccination you have to go to the GGD, but for an antigen test, PCR test or a recovery statement you can go to the Vaccination Centre. Big business? Not big, but it is business. And welcome business, after all those Covid months when you couldn’t earn a cent from travel vaccinations. But everyone’s on the move again now, as the summer holiday approaches. Happy holidays, everyone!
This is the last episode of this Campus Residents feature. Over the past two years we have introduced you to companies located on campus.
