Paramedics union supports COVID-19 vaccine mandate
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KAMLOOPS — The provincial health order earlier this week to have all healthcare workers vaccinated also applies to paramedics. Their union supports vaccinations but awaits more details on the mandatory policy.
As of October 26, all healthcare workers in B.C. will have to be immunized against COVID-19. Ambulance Paramedics and Dispatchers of B.C. (APDBC) says more than 90 per cent of paramedics have already been vaccinated and they’re not sure exactly how the new rules will affect their unvaccinated members.
“Any time we lose a paramedic in a time of crisis with staffing is not good,” APDBC’s Troy Clifford told CFJC Today. “But I would counter that with the argument that losing a paramedic because they have infected a patient or got infected themselves and can’t come to work would be way more detrimental to the system and the responses than the choice to not work.”
