A nurse is suing Alberta Health Services (AHS) for firing her after she publicly criticised AHS’ handling of patient care during the pandemic and its treatment of unvaccinated patients and staff.
Debra Carritt says she first went through official channels with her concerns, from her direct manager up through to the province’s health minister. When that failed, she went to the media.
Among the concerns she voiced about AHS, as outlined in her statement of claim filed March 17, was, “open discrimination, judgment, and hostility towards un-vaccinated patients and staff.”
Staff openly said in front of patients, for example, that they should be made to pay for their treatment if they are unvaccinated or be “denied treatment up to and including death,” the claim says. This violated the ethical medical principle of equal care for all, it says….