All health and social services workers can now register to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The Minister of Health and Social Services Christian Dubé announced on April 10 the deployment of phase 2 of the vaccination of these workers.
This includes, among others, network staff, trainees and those in charge of intermediate and family-type resources who were not targeted by phase 1; workers and interns in a private clinic, then community workers in direct contact with high-risk patients.
Staff in dental clinics, family medicine groups, private medical clinics, pharmacies, as well as psychology, optometry, physiotherapy and hearing aid clinics can now also be vaccinated.
These workers had not received a vaccine as part of the first phase in case of the slowdown in dose delivery in February.
Healthcare workers are invited to make an appointment on the Québec.ca / vaccinCOVID site to make an appointment. Proof of employment (proof of membership in the professional order, an employee card with photo, pay stub or letter from the employer, with mention of the job title) must be provided during the appointment. .
It should be remembered that the first phase targeted workers who provide services within the framework of clinical missions and programs in living, residential or care environments as well as employees providing clinical services within the framework, among others, of programs in youth, physical or intellectual disabilities, mental health, public health, services for the elderly or youth protection.
Prove or screen
A new ministerial decree on the screening of health workers, unveiled on Saturday, details the measures that certain circles in the network must put in place for workers considered unvaccinated. The targeted environments are those where there are vulnerable users or those where activities critical to maintaining services to the population take place.
This increase in protective measures is deemed necessary by Minister Dubé, while the risk of transmission by the new variants is growing.
Thus, workers must now provide their employer with proof of vaccination against COVID-19.
Those who have not received a dose of the vaccine for more than 14 days, as well as those who refuse to provide proof of vaccination, should undergo recurrent preventive screening.
Workers have the right to refuse to participate in screening. In this case, they could be reassigned to similar tasks in a non-targeted environment, or withdrawn without pay, if the reassignment is not possible or if it is refused by the workers.
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