Image: Shutterstock/Alexxndr Image: Shutterstock/Alexxndr TWO HOSPITAL GROUPS have confirmed that almost 300 of their employees had not been vaccinated against Covid-19 almost a year into the State’s vaccination programme.
Mandatory vaccination is not currently Government policy and the HSE says that vaccination is based on the consent of its staff members to accept vaccination. A spokesperson for the hospital group said that it was welcome that there had been “a very high take-up of vaccination by healthcare staff” to date and that just 2% of workers were not vaccinated when the risk-assessment of all staff was carried out.“Should a person change their mind, vaccination can be made available to them. We continue to vaccinate new healthcare staff and have processes in place to ensure new healthcare workers are vaccinated.
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#Open journalism No news is bad news Support The Journal Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you“In relation to staff, I’ve said openly from the start of [the pandemic] that I would expect all healthcare staff to take up the Covid vaccine,” he said.
It didn't work people are fed up with this type of emotional pot stirring. Leave our doctors, nurses and health workers alone and mind your god damn business.
It is their choice, this is such a non-story!
What could these health workers know that we don't? Maybe the fact that vaccines don't work but there are real treatment protocols that work. These therapeutic interventions have been there and agreed on just weeks into the pandemic. But for some reason only Vaccines were used.
Shouldn’t be allowed to work there then! Disgraceful!
Why have hundreds of people's private personal information been given to a mediocre rag like the journal? Surely that is what any decent journalist should be investigating?
And? No difference between the vaxxed and unvaxxed in terms of spreading. And if they are sick they should stay at home nonstory
Crazy stuff
How many of the hundreds of staff hv already hv recovered fr covid & hv NaturalImmunity which is far superior to any 6 myth protection fr vaccine?
People who got the dodgy jab are all just bitter they have all bein duped & they want everyone else to feel as stupid as they do for believing everything they were told
Ok for them to work with dodgy PPE before the vaccines were unleashed. They were hero's then but, now just lepers. People are so fickle
And that's there private business. It doesn't effect there capacity to fulfill there job. Go do some real journalism and stop the bullshite reporting
Good for them. They have a bit of cop on!
I’ve taken 3 jabs , booster made me ill ,, i’m done ..
If I had to go to hospital, I'd want unjabbed people treating me, they have natural immunity, can't infect me, Congratulations to all those who declined the experimental 💉💉,
Not a story.
Ahh the hypocrisy
they likely have already been infected, meaning they dont need the vax, this week the EMA said too many vaccines could crash your immune system, so we need to be asking if the vax is safe for people who have had covid? either way their vax status is NOYB
I bet they're in, working, and very little omicron infection amongst them. Good on 'em, doing their job as best they can. Leave them alone.
That's thier choice
So you can't go into a cafe for a coffee and a scone without a vax cert yet you can still work in a hospital.... Odd
Can we get them to sign a waiver agreeing to zero treatment if they end up needing medical treatment? Seems reasonable I think.
WHY WOULD THEY when even the Pfizer CEO has come out and admitted the vaccine is as good as useless against OMICROM? Enough of the BS now. TIME TO GET BACK TO NORMAL.
Being able to persevere under great pressure is respectable
Snitches get stitches
So 98% are vaccinated
Idiots...
Why are they working in healthcare if they don't understand the basics of transmissible infection? Regard for the welfare of others should be a minimum requirement and their obvious disregard for same is shameful.
I though it was the LAW!!
The only thing that they will spread is common sense
P45.
Amazing the amount of useless waffle from the internet that appears.
WHY WOULD THEY when even the Pfizer CEO has come out and admitted the vaccine is as good as useless against OMICROM? Enough of the BS now. TIME TO GET BACK TO NORMAL.
Good. We are the ones that won’t be clogging up the health system with side effects, myocarditis, pericarditis and god only knows in five years time the long term damages. But best of luck. I’ll keep my immune systems thanks!
are they sick? Have they had it before? Ask them why they won't? For all the hypochondriacs, get a new hobby that involves yourself exclusively. Anything else is being a selfish menace to every other human.
So 98% are vaccinated.
🙄do some journalism clickbait
Most have watched their fully vaccinated colleagues get covid or suffer injury from the injections. One ward in C.U.H 100% absenteeism are fully vaccinated the under staffed remaining standing have not been vaxxed.that is beside the30% increase in miscarriage and still birth.
If you can get covid, spread covid, get sick from covid and potentially die with covid. Why get vaccinated at all? It is hardly just to go to the pub and be kicked out at 8pm?
They should all be sacked and not allowed any social welfare payments with immediate effect!
And they are Health care workers? Do they know something we don't?
Their medical decisions are their own business and no one else's.
May we please have a bit of perspective here… hundreds of HSE staff are currently undergoing invasive surgical and oncology treatment, hundreds of hse staff are currently pregnant, hundreds of hse staff are immuno compromised and can’t receive the vaccine.. hse staff are human
P45.
Good for them.
And so what that's their right to choose. In a country where 90% are double jabbed we shouldn't be worried about it...
They have not been Vaccinated for 2 Years what's the Problem now when 92% of People are Vaccinated?
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