NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard is looking into ways to require mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for all health workers after at least two partially-vaccinated nurses at a south-west Sydney hospital contracted the virus as part of a fatal coronavirus cluster.
The NSW Health Minister is looking at ways to require all health workers to be vaccinated, the ABC understands.The Liverpool Hospital cluster began when an unvaccinated nurse unknowingly worked while positive with COVIDOne surgeon warned patients could put off making appointments due to unvaccinated health care workers
But both the Nurses and Midwives Union and the Health Service Union , said a vaccination mandate for COVID-19 was not appropriate and could even lead to staff leaving the industry. "I would advocate for the principles of vaccination and that this should be coming from government and certainly the federal government," she said."Without having any vaccination standards, it's just really unfair to expect hospitals to all do the same thing.Dr Payal Mukherjee says governments need to set high standards for health worker vaccinations.
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