Interior Health is recruiting immunizers for its mass COVID-19 vaccination clinics, which will open sometime next month.

Chief medical health officer Dr. Albert De Villiers says most people who work in a field of health would be able to do it.

“Dr. Bonnie Henry did make a new order that there can be more than nurses, and we definitely plan to use whoever is at our disposal. They will have to have some medical training and there will be a course people will have to take, to make sure they are up to speed with the latest information about vaccines. But yes, we’ll definitely use whatever we can legally use.”

Interior Health has not said how many immunizers it’s looking to hire.

“We have a significant amount of planning underway right now. We know that our clinics will demand clinical immunizers, as well as non-clinical staff to help with the flow of people and all of the other aspects that go with operating a mass immunization clinic,” interim vice president of pandemic response Karen Bloemink says.

Details on where vaccination clinics will be across the Interior are expected to be released in the “coming days” according to Bloemink.

The province expects to open mass vaccination clinics sometime in April, and has indicated April 12 would be the earliest date.

In Kamloops, the city has already stated that those vaccine clinics will be set up at the Tournament Capital Centre and the McArthur Island Events Centre. The opening date has not yet been determined, but after they open in April they will be open for up to seven months.