At a press conference held on October 22, 2009, the representatives of the Regional Organization of Civil Security 
and the Health and Social Services Agency of the Gaspesia and the Magdalen Islands presented the actions taken to counter the feared H1N1 pandemic by giving general information on the important vaccine campaign which will be progressively deployed in the region starting October 26th, 2009.
The region will receive, in a gradual manner at regular intervals, sufficient quantities of doses of the vaccine to counter the struggle against the H1N1 virus. The first people who will receive the vaccine will be the health workers and some priority clients, such as women who are pregnant, children from six months to five years of age, and people under 65 years who are chronically ill.
In that this concerns vaccinations destined to the population, the region has identified seventeen vaccination sites in each of the territories with health and social services centers of hundreds of people at the same time since, in certain places, a thousand persons per day can be vaccinated. The agency indicated that it will have sufficient vaccinations for the entire population.
A vaccination exercise similar to this was unveiled in the region in 2006 and justly aimed at the preparation for an eventual pandemic. This type of operation necessarily mobilizes the numerous care resources of the health and social service centers of the regions with five hundred people at each of the vaccination sites.
The vaccination is considered the best means of effectively countering the grippe and is one of the more secure and efficient measures of prevention in the history of modern medicine.
The agency reminds everyone that the vaccination is voluntary. Each health and social service center is responsible of informing the residents of their territory about the vaccination logistics. The population is asked to watch the local medias for messages concerning the public interest which will be broadcast over the next few days.
It is possible to obtain all the information linked with the vaccination at the website – www.pandemiequebec.gouv.qc.ca
Starting Saturday, October 24th, 2009, the schedules and vaccination sites will be available in the section “In My Region – Gaspesie-Iles-de-la-Madeleine” at the government website.