Merritt mayor calls on B.C. to drop vaxx mandate for health-care workers ‘right now’
The Mayor of Merritt believes the provincial government could start curing the health care system by lifting the vaccine mandate for health care workers “right now.”
Goetz also pointed to the situation in the Kootenay community of Elkford, whose emergency room has been closed for 16 months. The province also issued an order requiring all professional colleges regulating health-care practitioners to collect information on their vaccine status, but did not require all health care professionals to be vaccinated.Goetz, who chairs the B.C. Rural Health Care Alliance representing municipal officials from communities across the province from the Kootenays to northern Vancouver Island, first raised the mandate during a conference call with Interior Health in January.
The demand from the alliance to lift the vaccine requirement mirrors earlier calls from the B.C. Liberals, who had called on the province in June 2022 to follow the federal government in suspending vaccine mandate for provincial employees.
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