More than 17,000 Quebec health-care workers face suspension for refusing vaccine
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More than 17,000 health-care workers in Quebec will be suspended next month for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, and now provincial officials are scrambling to fill in the gaps.
A spokesperson for Health Minister Christian Dubé told CBC on Monday that a total of 17,426 employees within Quebec's health-care network still haven't had their first dose.
Nearly half of those unvaccinated employees are front-line workers who are in direct contact with patients, the spokesperson said.
They will all be suspended Oct. 15 when the provincial decree that mandates all health-care workers be fully vaccinated kicks in.
Thousands more who've only received a first dose will also be off the job until they get the second.
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"It affects us because we're going to be missing staff in a system that's already not doing well," she said.
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