FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A caller schoolhouse twelvemonth is astir to begin, and Fresno Unified wants to punctual families of the value of being up to day connected regular schoolhouse immunizations.
According to officials successful the district, each students entering schoolhouse indispensable conscionable authorities immunization requirements. Students entering kindergarten and seventh people indispensable supply impervious of updated immunizations.
Officials accidental the district's Health Services Department volition big a escaped walk-in session astatine Tioga Middle School connected Aug. 10 for seventh graders only, Aug. 12, Aug. 13, Aug. 17, and Aug. 19-23 from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The session is successful Room 35 astatine Tioga, 3232 E. Fairmont Ave., successful Fresno.
The Tioga clinics are for Medi-Cal and uninsured students only. Students with backstage security should telephone their doc oregon a pharmacy that administers immunizations similar CVS, Rite Aid, Target, and Costco.
Immunizations and sports physicals volition beryllium offered astatine 2 Fresno Unified campuses this summer:
Herrera Elementary School - United Health Care Center astatine 5090 E. Church Ave., successful Fresno volition beryllium offering sports physicals and immunizations connected July 18 and July 23 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Gaston Middle School Health and Wellness Center astatine 1120 E. Church Ave., volition beryllium offering sports physicals connected July 20 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and immunizations connected Aug. 9 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
For immunization, the territory officials inquire for parents to bring an immunization card. For sports physicals, bring the signifier provided by the student's coach. If nary security is provided, sports physicals are $15.
Officials accidental for kindergarten entry, each students are required to beryllium up to day connected vaccines against polio, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus (Dtap), mumps, measles and rubella (MMR), hepatitis B, and varicella. Students entering seventh people indispensable amusement impervious of existent vaccination against pertussis and person a 2nd varicella immunization.