Guelph - Medisys Health Group is pleased to announce the opening of the Guelph Region’s first and only full-time travel health and vaccination clinic conveniently located at the 83 Dawson Road medical facility in Guelph.

Medisys Travel Health and Vaccination Clinics provide travellers with customized travel health-related information based on their destination, activities and personal medical history and the full range of routine and travel vaccinations. The clinic is operated under the guidance of Dr. Jay Keystone, past-President of the International Society of Travel Medicine and staff physician at the Centre for Travel and Tropical Medicine at the Toronto General Hospital.

“We are very excited to add this clinic to the Medisys network.” states Dr. Keystone. “We feel that our national presence, combined with our full range of travel vaccinations and high level of customer service will positively benefit the Guelph-Waterloo-Kitchener-Cambridge population. We look forward to helping these residents stay healthy while travelling abroad.”

To ensure maximum effectiveness and convenience, Medisys offers a full range of vaccinations on site such as hepatitis A and B, typhoid fever, meningitis, HPV and many others. Prescriptions for medications to prevent malaria and altitude sickness, as well as medication for the self-treatment of travellers’ diarrhea are also available. In addition, Medisys’ Guelph travel health and vaccination clinic is designated by Health Canada as an approved Yellow Fever Vaccination Centre.

With 7 other travel clinics located in Quebec City, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver, Medisys is the only national provider of travel medicine in Canada.