Canada: Paramedics On the Job - Without Flu Shots

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Paramedics On the Job - Without Flu Shots

Toronto paramedics who defy provincial

legislation requiring them to get a flu

shot will still be allowed to work - for now.

In an article which appeared in the Toronto

Star, Bruce Farr, director of EMS

operations, said.``It does not serve us or the

community for me to go in (today)

and lay off 30 or 40 paramedics. "

``I want to keep all my paramedics on the

street.''

Today marks the second deadline Toronto's

ambulance service has set - and

extended - for the city's 754 paramedics to get

a flu shot.

It doesn't matter how many more deadlines

a is given, she said

she won't get a flu shot.

is one 40 Toronto paramedics who still

haven't had their flu shot. She

doesn't believe it works and is worried about

the cumulative effects the

mercury and formaldehyde in the shot may have

on her body.

``I don't want to take those risks with my

health for something which I don't

think is effective and my body can fight off on

its own,'' , 38, director of

media relations for the Toronto Paramedic

Association, said.

The Ambulance Act was amended in May requiring

the province's 5,000

paramedics get the shot. is angry that

legislation is trying to take away

her right to choose what goes in her body. She

says it's unfair that

paramedics were singled out when the flu shot

isn't mandatory for doctors or

nurses.

The legislation was designed to protect both

paramedics and the community

from transmitting the flu.

Paramedics who still haven't had a shot will be

interviewed, given more

information on the health benefits of the flu

shot and about the legislation.

But once that process is over - Farr couldn't

say when that would be -

ambulance management will have to comply with

the government legislation

and that means that paramedics who still refuse

to take the shot will not be

allowed to work.

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