According to a Perth midwife, hospitals in Western Australia (WA) could soon be forced to shut down or face severe staff shortages as hundreds of health workers have expressed their defiance to vaccination mandates. The midwife, who is based at a public hospital, told The Epoch Times that all WA hospitals would be affected by staff shortages. The Epoch Times has agreed to provide the midwife with a pseudonym (Alice) due to concerns about the new Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) health legislation that forbids medical staff in Australia from speaking publicly about COVID-19 vaccines. “They’re having crisis meetings to figure out what they’re going to do when we leave or get fired,” Alice said. Alice has claimed that hospitals across the state are urgently seeking to address staff shortages after staff have declined to receive the COVID-19 vaccines. WA implemented vaccination mandates across the entire health sector on Sept. …