Alberta nurse aide sent home for refusing flu shot
Posted Jan 25, 2013 7:19 am.
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An Alberta nurse’s aide says she was sent home without pay Tuesday, after refusing to get a flu shot.
Diana Lockie says she was one of a dozen workers sent home from the facility where she works in Medicine Hat after she declined a vaccination.
Lockie says she feared the vaccine could exacerbate a painful neurological condition; now she feels as if she’s being bullied.
Lockie and her coworkers are not the only healthcare employees who’ve been penalized for not getting the shot; workers at a care centre north of Edmonton were also banished for the week.
Dr. Ken Flegel from the Canadian Medical Association tells The National Post, patients lives depend on healthcare workers being vaccinated and it needs to be mandatory.
