'Many' suspended hospital workers getting COVID-19 vaccine, Windsor Regional Hospital says
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Some previously unvaccinated staff at Windsor hospitals have been choosing to get vaccinated since more than 170 were suspended without pay on Wednesday and given a deadline to get vaccinated or lose their jobs.
Windsor Regional Hospital said that as of Friday morning, 21 suspended workers have gotten the vaccine and returned to work. It says many others are in the process of getting vaccinated.
Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare said there are currently 30 workers suspended without pay at their facility, two fewer than the hospital reported on Wednesday.
"Delta is a brutal virus, it takes very little to contract that virus," said Doris Grinspun, CEO of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario.
"So to have any health-care professional, anywhere, in any health-care sector... unvaccinated, is a threat for patients."
Grinspun said that while she doesn't agree that unvaccinated workers should be fired, she said they should not be providing direct patient care, adding that it should not be falling on hospitals to mandate vaccines for workers, rather it should be on the provincial government.
"Any other country that has acted seriously on this, it's the government that has mandated this and not left it for health-care organizations to deal with this," she said.
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