HEALTH-CARE ORDERS URGED TO MANDATE VACCINATIONS

Quebec’s professional health-care orders should make vaccination a condition for their members to remain in good standing, Health Minister Christian Dubé said Friday. After an Oct. 15 deadline, unvaccinated health-sector employees face suspension without pay. Dubé said groups representing health professionals such as nurses and respiratory therapists should follow the lead of the province’s doctors order, the Collège des médecins, which has said it will suspend the right to practise medicine of any member who refuses vaccination. Dubé also suggested tighter regulations may be coming to prevent some front-line health-care workers from taking jobs in the private sector where they wouldn’t have direct interaction with patients.