Travel Clinic Calgary Downtown

Services

Our travel health clinic in Calgary Downtown offers:

• covid PCR and antigen tests for travel as well as covid antibody testing
• Free covid 19 vaccinations Clinic offering Pfizer Covid Vaccine including Booster shots. 
• travel health consultations and immunizations

Make an appointment at our travel health clinic in Calgary Downtown using the booking form on this page. Whether it’s for covid testing and vaccination or travel health advice, make one appointment for each person.

Don’t delay: book a travel health appointment today. We recommend that you come and see us six to eight weeks before you travel to ensure the best immunity for the start of your trip. This also allows time for us to administer shots that require two or three doses. But if you’re travelling last-minute, we can offer same-day slots and accelerated schedules.

We can also help with catch-up vaccines and shots that protect you from dangerous illnesses that you might be exposed to during day-to-day life in Canada.

We provide a full range of travel shots and we can offer malaria prophylaxis, too. Our Calgary clinic is a designated yellow fever vaccination centre, so we can provide you with a yellow fever certificate. We can provide any covid test certificates that you need for your trip abroad.

What we offer at our Calgary Downtown clinic

At our conveniently located Calgary Downtown clinic we offer a range of health services for travelers and people in living or visiting Calgary. This includes:

• covid-19 vaccinations (Covid 19 Vaccination Clinic) and testing services
• travel health consultations
• travel immunisations and catch-up shots
• anti-malarials
• TB testing

Covid vaccination and testing service

Every Canadian is entitled to a free set of covid vaccinations. Make an appointment with Canadian Travel Clinics for your covid shots and bring your Alberta Health Care Card.

Whether you need covid testing for work, travel or just for peace of mind, make an appointment with Canadian Travel Clinics. It is so quick and easy to get tested for covid-19. We can email you your certificate within hours of your test.

Ready to get vaccinated or boosted against covid-19?

We provide free covid-19 vaccines at our Calgary health clinic. Bring your Alberta Health Care card and we will take care of everything. We have a full stock of covid-19 vaccines so make an appointment today.

Your covid vaccines are all free, even if it is for travel purposes.

Be sure to bring your Alberta Health Care card to your covid vaccination appointment.

Which covid vaccines do you have in stock?

We have excellent stocks of both Pfizer and Moderna Covid 19 Vaccines.

If I have been vaccinated with Pfizer covid vaccine, can I be boosted with the Moderna covid vaccine?

As per Health Alberta guidance, the Pfizer and the Moderna covid-19 vaccines are interchangeable. So if your first dose of covid vaccine was Pfizer, you can have either Pfizer or Moderna for your second dose or covid booster. And if your first dose of covid vaccine was Moderna, it is safe for you to be boosted with the Pfizer covid vaccine.

Covid testing service for travelers

We can provide a reliable, professional covid-19 testing service designed to meet the needs of travelers. We offer:

• PCR tests including Japanese format PCR test Certificate
• rapid antigen or lateral flow tests
• covid antibody testing

To get a covid test for travel, make an appointment using the booking form on this page.

We can also offer a video-supervised covid testing service.

Corporate health services to protect your business from the impact of covid

We know how important time is to businesses and corporate customers, which is why we can provide a mobile covid vaccination and testing service at your offices. Keep your workforce safe and efficient with our covid testing and vaccination service. Send an email to [email protected] if you would like to arrange covid testing or Covid 19 vaccines at your workplace.

A consultation with a professional travel healthcare adviser

Our 30-minute appointment slots will allow you to discuss all your travel health requirements with a professional travel healthcare adviser.

You may have questions about preventing accidents, sun safety, avoiding insect and mosquito bites and best practice around food and water. Our travel health advisers are trained to answer questions about travel health safety, and they will give you advice on avoiding illness when you travel.

What will happen during my travel health appointment?

We understand that your time is important. So, we proudly present our travel health centre with zero waiting time. Just arrive five minutes before your appointment and you will be seen by our travel nurse right away.

Our specialist travel health nurse will ask you about your travel plans, including itinerary and activities. You should be completely honest about your plans. We can assure you that your consultation is completely confidential. Your nurse adviser will use this information to assess what risks you may be exposed to while you are travelling. And then they will recommend travel vaccines or malaria prophylaxis as required.

Our clinic is set up so that we can advise you and administer vaccinations in the same visit. You may need to return for follow-up doses of some vaccines, for example, hepatitis A is given in two doses.

What should I bring to my travel health appointment?

It would be helpful to bring any travel vaccination certificates you already have and any vaccination records. Your travel health adviser will want details of where you plan to go and when you are travelling. And they will want to know what activities you have planned on your trip. This information will guide them as they make their vaccine recommendations.

Travellers with special requirements

We can offer longer appointments to travellers with complex needs. Just ask when you book. Examples include:

• If you are in an altered state of health because you are pregnant or breastfeeding, you may have more questions about staying well during your trip.
• If you are planning a longer trip (more than three months) with more than three destinations.
• If you are living with a long-term condition. You should also make an appointment with your usual healthcare provider to learn more about the possible effects of, for example, heat and altitude, on your condition.

Health advice for business travellers

First Alberta Place is on Plus 15. This means you can have your travel health consultation without walking in the cold or wet if you work on or near the skyway.

We can offer appointments at the start or end of the working day to reduce the amount of time you spend away from your desk. Our central location means it’s easy to reach us, and we minimize our waiting times for appointments, so you don’t waste time sitting in the waiting room.

Your travel health nurse will tailor their advice to your line of work to ensure they assess all the risks to which you might be exposed. Whether you are an office worker, in construction, agriculture, forestry or an aid worker, our travel health advisers can provide tailored advice.

Last-minute travel health advice and injections

If you are travelling at short notice, whether it’s for a last-minute holiday or because you are supporting family in an emergency or dealing with a business matter, come and see us. We can usually see you same-day, and our travel health nurses can work out accelerated schedules for some vaccinations. They can also give advice on avoiding disease while abroad.

What vaccinations can you provide?

We can provide the full range of normal travel shots and travel health certificates at our clinic. We can also provide catch-up shots.

Travel vaccinations

The range of travel shots we can administer includes:

• cholera
• diphtheria
• hepatitis A
• hepatitis B
• Japanese encephalitis
• meningococcal meningitis
• polio
• rabies
• tetanus
• tick-borne encephalitis
• typhoid
• yellow fever.

Travel health certificates

Some countries will not let you in unless you can prove your immunity to certain diseases. In particular, yellow fever, and meningococcal meningitis. At your consultation your travel health adviser will tell you whether you need any certificates for your trip abroad. Entry requirements change all the time, but our travel health advisers have access to reliable and up-to-date information so they will give you guidance.

Our Calgary office is a designated yellow fever centre, so we can vaccinate you against yellow fever and give you a certificate to prove you are immune to this mosquito-borne disease. We can also vaccinate you against meningococcal meningitis and provide a certificate. You will need this if you are travelling to Saudi Arabia.

Catch-up shots

We can also organize catch-up shots if you need protecting from illnesses normally covered by the Canadian vaccine schedule. For example:

• chicken pox
• diphtheria
• pertussis (whooping cough)
• shingles
• tetanus

Malaria prophylaxis

We can provide malaria tablets and help you find a regime that will protect you, safely and comfortably, from malaria.

It can be difficult to work out when to start and finish malaria prophylaxis, and the advice changes with the seasons. So, our travel health nurses will draw on sources available to healthcare professionals to assess your risk of exposure. They may recommend a test course of antimalarials before you leave to ensure that you can tolerate the pills.

They will also give advice on avoiding mosquito bites, as antimalarials do not guarantee complete protection.

Advice about avoiding malaria

To support your shots and malaria prophylaxis we’ll give advice too. You might need to practice mosquito and tick avoidance and take a few steps to avoid exposure to food- and water-borne diseases.

Tests for TB

We can administer the Mantoux test for tuberculosis (TB). Tuberculosis, is unfortunately, becoming more common. You may have been exposed at work, or during day-to-day activities in Canada. If you want to check for your own peace of mind whether you have TB, come and see us.

How much will my travel health regime cost?

We publish our price list and we offer destination guides so you can get an idea of what you might need. But our travel health nurses will use professional sources of up-to-date information to recommend an appropriate regime that gives as much protection as you need.

They may recommend combined shots that could be less expensive than two separate vaccinations.

We do not charge extra for administrating injections, and there is no dispensing fee either.

Why should I make a travel health appointment?

When travelling you are exposed to health risks that are not present in Canada and you are at increased risk of contracting an illness because travelling stresses your body and affects your immune system. Getting ill while travelling can turn the trip of a lifetime into a miserable experience. It can be costly, too, as you may have to pay for healthcare. You can avoid some unpleasant and dangerous illnesses such as hepatitis A by getting vaccinated ahead of your trip. Don’t waste time worrying about your health while travelling make an appointment with us today.