Information on individual B.C. practitioners will not be available to potential patients; instead, the Ministry of Health confirmed that vaccination information will only be available as an aggregated rate for each profession
Even though British Columbia has dropped most COVID-19 safety measures, provincial-health officials are pushing ahead to require all regulated health professionals to disclose their vaccination status to their respective regulating bodies.
The previous plan was to bar unvaccinated members of 18 health professional regulating bodies, or colleges, from continuing their jobs as of March 24. The updated order required them to submit their vaccination status by the end of March. The colleges are now assembling the data. At the annual general meeting of the College of Chiropractors of B.C., or CCBC, in December, the practitioners who attended voted in favour of a motion that opposed mandatory vaccination for the province’s more than 1,300 chiropractors.
According to the Ministry of Health, approximately 2,582 employees in public-health care settings have been terminated because of non-compliance with the mandate. It includes 927 employees from Interior Health, accounting for about 3.8 per cent of the region’s work force; 474 from Fraser Health, 393 from Island Health and 304 from Northern Health, which suffered a critical nursing shortage during the pandemic.
University of British Columbia medical ethicist Judy Illes said she’s fully supportive, from an ethical point of view, on the province’s efforts to gather as much data as possible about vaccinations in all sectors, as long as people’s privacy is protected.
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