Premier Doug Ford will not mandate health care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
In a statement released Wednesday, Ford said it’s a complex issue that could result in the departure of tens of thousands of health care workers.
“Experience in other Canadian jurisdictions tells us that implementing a province-wide vaccine mandate for hospital workers can negatively impact the care patients receive,” Ford pointed out. “British Columbia has had to cancel surgeries and diagnostic tests because of the sudden termination of more than 3,000 health care workers after implementing a vaccine mandate. Quebec has now abandoned theirs altogether because of the significant risk an abrupt loss of thousands of health care workers poses to delivering critical services.”
The statement went onto say that the government will maintain its flexible approach by leaving human resourcing decisions up to individual hospitals.
