Some rural B.C. mayors call for end to vaccine mandates to address health staffing shortages
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During a conference call between rural mayors and Interior Health Authority officials on Monday, Goetz said one of the first questions asked was: “Can we look lifting the vaccine for nurses?”Article contentA provincial public health order requires the approximately 190,000 health care workers in hospitals, long-term care homes and community health centres in B.C. to be vaccinated for COVID-19. The B.C. Public Service Agency also requires its 30,000 employees to be fully vaccinated.
B.C. Nurses’ Union said in a statement the union encourages nurses to be “vaccinated against communicable diseases as a preventive measure and in accordance with the most recent scientific evidence.” The union said the decision to revise any public health order “rests entirely with our elected officials.”
Dix said B.C. does not have a physicians assistant training program and, as a result, the province has put its focus on helping internationally-trained medical graduates become licensed as “associate physicians.” Associate physicians are not licensed for independent practice but can work under physician supervision.
Jude Kornelsen, co-director of the centre for rural health research at UBC, said while it’s always been difficult to sustain rural health staffing levels, the challenge became more acute during the pandemic as more people called in sick and some left the profession entirely because of burnout.Article content
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