Hat doctor among three suing AHS over vaccination policy

By KENDALL KING, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter on December 14, 2021.

kking@medicinehatnews.com

A Medicine Hat physician, along with three others practising in the province, are suing Alberta Health Services over its mandatory vaccination policy, which went into effect Monday.

Dr. Gert Grobler, who works at a local medical clinic, joins in asking the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta to exempt him and the three other doctors from AHS’s vaccination policy.

“AHS is pleased that 97 per cent of full-time and part-time AHS employees – and 99.7 per cent of AHS physicians – have submitted proof of having two doses of COVID-19 vaccine,” AHS said in a statement Monday. “Over 9,000 physicians and 200 medical leaders work with AHS. This lawsuit represents far less than 0.1 per cent of those physicians. AHS is confident in the validity of the mandatory immunization policy, which is an important tool to ensure the safety of our staff, physicians and patients. Healthcare workers have an ethical and professional responsibility to protect others.”

Grobler declined to provide a statement to the News.

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