The chairman of Gillingham Football Club has offered the use of its football stadium as a vaccine centre.

Paul Scally said he was "only too happy" for the MEMS Priestfield Stadium to be used as a Medway vaccination hub, if the NHS and local authorities wish to use it.

The venue has already been used as a testing hub, with the Royal Engineers overseeing proceedings last month.

Rehman Chishti, MP for Gillingham and Rainham, contacted the chairman this morning to ask if such an arrangement was possible.

Chairman Paul Scally said: “Rehman Chishti has been working extremely hard recently for the benefit of those in Medway, and the wider area, and I am only too happy for the stadium to be used as a vaccination hub.

“We want to do as much as we can to help everybody in these challenging times and I will continue to liaise with our MP to assist in any way we can.”

The Gills chairman said he is more than happy for the facility to be used, free of charge, as a benefit to those living in Medway, and beyond.

Rehman Chishti, MP, raised the subject in the House of Commons and called for a mass vaccination centre in Medway.

He said: "My constituents in Gillingham and Rainham, and the wider Medway towns, would like me, to raise their real concerns with the regards to the availability of the vaccine in our local towns.

“We have residents in their 80s and 90s who have not yet had the vaccination, and Medway was one of the hardest hit areas in the country and a variant was discovered in Kent."

The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, responded: “I share my honourable friend’s sense of frustration about the pace of the vaccine roll-out.

"He is entirely right that a constituency MP should want to see more done as fast as possible."

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