A surgeon who filed a petition requesting a judicial review over the exclusion of B.C. health-care workers who are unvaccinated for COVID-19 says their absence hurts patients in the province.
Dr. York Hsiang and two other plaintiffs filed their petition in the B.C. Supreme Court on June 10 asking that a 2021 public health order requiring all medical staff to be vaccinated for COVID be quashed.
“There is no reasonable basis to conclude that there is presently an emergency sufficient to justify the ongoing use of the emergency powers underlying the November 18 Order,” the petition states.
“[A]nd, in any event, there is no reasonable basis to support the conclusion that the mandatory vaccination of health professionals is effective or necessary to reduce transmission of the virus in affected health care settings, in light of the best available evidence and present circumstances. As such, the November 18 Order is unreasonable and unlawful, and must be quashed.”…