Aug 2, 2021 | Community, Education, Health

Ambulance officers rapidly deployed to assist COVID-19 testing efforts

  • Rod Stephen is a former television journalist and has worked as Foreign Editor for the Seven Network, Australian Bureau Chief for TV3 New Zealand, UK correspondent for Seven and ABC radio and as a producer for Reuters TV in London as well as SBS in Sydney and Melbourne before returning to Brisbane to work at 4BC.

Ambulance officers have been deployed to a new COVID-19 testing centre at Eight Mile Plains just north of Logan City.

With 11 Local Government Areas in lockdown, residents are being urged to come forward and get tested. 

Superintendent Rick Tenthy from the Ambulance Services Emergency Management Unit has said the Eight Mile plains facility will be operating 24 hours a day.

 

The Eight Mile Plains Community Health Centre is located at 51 McKechnie Drive, Eight Mile Plains. It  will be open until 10pm Monday 2 August and will then re-open on Tuesday 3 August from 7am and continue a 24-hour operation until  not required to do so.. 

This is a walk-in clinic with no booking or GP referral needed and children from 12 months and older can be tested. 

Information on locations of COVID-19 testing clinics can be found here:  

https://www.qld.gov.au/health/conditions/health-alerts/coronavirus-covid-19/stay-informed/testing and-fever-clinics#testing-centre-map

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