Marcel Bakker, operational director of TCA Taxi, makes a striking appeal to the GGD. Let us provide the target group with a voucher so that this important target group can travel to the vaccination street carefree and with assistance. The industry is open to it. Bakker invites the GGD for a meeting and calls on them to take up the challenge together.
Dear GGD, over 2 million vaccinations await us in the coming period. Before you saddle the elderly and their families with a logistics problem. Let me know that in the Netherlands thousands of taxis are stopped at the side of the road.
The vaccination taxi has been in the spotlight for some time. Those who are less mobile can call on adapted transport in Flanders through the local government, such as a taxi or volunteers. GTL called on the entire taxi sector in Flanders to mobilize for transport to the 120 vaccination centers. People with mobility problems generally form part of the priority population groups to be vaccinated. There is one together with Wouter Beke and Lydia Peeters constructive consultation with Taxisector & Minder Mobielen Centrale. They will cooperate to make the vaccination centers a success. They can support local authorities to get less mobile people to the vaccination center.
The taxi operators can decide for themselves whether to participate, everyone is free, but GTL suggests contacting the city authorities as soon as possible to let them know that you would like to accept the call to offer vaccination rides. GTL proposes that the carriers, among colleagues in their area of work, try to agree as best as possible to offer this at a fixed price per trip (outward or return).
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